The Lily & the Rose

The Lily & the Rose
Adoration of the Virgin in Sound & Stone: A Further History of the "Long" Fifteenth Century in Music & Alabaster
The Binchois Consort - Andrew Kirkman
Hyperion 68228

Contents:

    Intercession against plague

  1. Cooke: Stella celi extirpavit
  2. Chant: Salve sancta parens
  3. Frye: Kyrie "So ys emprentid"
  4. Frye: Gloria "Flos regalis"
  5. Guillaume Le Rouge: Stella celi extirpavit / So ys emprentid

    6. The Annunciation to the Virgin

  6. Bedyngham: Superno nunc emittitor
  7. Dunstaple: Ave maris stella
  8. Frye: Credo "Flos regalis"
  9. Damett: Salve porta paradisi
  10. Dunstaple: Gaude virgo salutata / Gaude virgo singularis / Virgo mater comprobaris / Ave gemma celi

    11. The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin

  11. Bedyngham or Frye: Sancta Maria, succurre miseris
  12. Frye: Sanctus & Benedictus "Flos regalis"
  13. Fowler: O quam glorifica
  14. Forest: Qualis est dilectus
  15. Dunstaple: Sancta Maria, succurre miseris

    16. Lineage of the Virgin

  16. Anon: Virga Jesse floruit
  17. Chant: Matronarum hec matrona
  18. Plummer: Anna mater matris Christi
  19. Frye: Agnus Dei "Flos regalis"

Performers: Timothy Travers-Brown (alto), James Hall (alto), Dominic Bland (tenor), Nicholas Madden (tenor), George Pooley (tenor), Matthew Vine (tenor)

Playing time: 73'

Recording date: May 2017; released: 2018

Although only a CD recording, this is something of a "multimedia" production, due to its reference to English alabaster art of the period — in this, it continues & enriches a historical tale begun in the prior Music for the 100 Years' War. The Frye mass forms the basic limbs of the program.

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Todd M. McComb