Music for Holy Week

Music for Holy Week in Proportional Rhythm
Schola Antiqua - J. Blackley & B.K. Jones, dirs
L'Oiseau Lyre "Florilegium" 417 324-1 [LP]
L'Oiseau Lyre "Florilegium" 417 324-2 [CD]
L'Oiseau Lyre "Florilegium" 417 324-4 [Cassette]

Contents

    Anon., Chant
  1. Hymn « Vexilla Regis » (1), AM 383b

    2. Maundy Thursday

  2. Introit « Nos autem » (4), LU 654
    Ordinary: Kyrie XVIII (4), LU 62c
  3. Gradual « Christus factus est » (5), LU 655
  4. Offertory « Dextera Domini » (2), LU 656
  5. Ordinary: Sanctus X (4), LU 45a
  6. Communion « Dominus Jesus » (2), LU 657

    7. Good Friday

  7. First Responsory (Tract) « Domine audivi » (2), LU 695
  8. Second Responsory (Tract) « Eripe me Domine ab » (2), LU 697

    9. ----
  9. Improperia (Responsory) « Popule meus » (1), LU 704b
  10. Antiphon « Ecce lignum » (6), LU 704a
  11. Antiphon « Crucem tuam » (4), LU 708
  12. Antiphon « Cum (Dum) fabricator » (3), unclass.
  13. Responsorial hymn (Hymn) « Crux fidelis » (1), LU 709 / Pange lingua

Performers: Schola Antiqua
Alexander Blachley (voice), Patrick Mason (voice), Peter Becker (voice), Eric Mentzel (voice)
Barbara Katherine Jones & John Blackley, dirs.

Playing times: 33' 33" + 27' 06" = 60' 39" [LP], 57' 02" (!) [CD]

Recording site and date:
The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY [10-11/1985] Rel.: 1987

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Diapason (#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from LP with precisions from « A Gregorian Chant Discography » by Jerome F. Weber, Utica, New York (1990).

Another recording by a similar ensemble:

Tenth-century Liturgical chant in Propotional Rhythm
Masses for Christmas Day and Easter Sunday
Schola Antiqua - R. John Blackley, dir.
Nonesuch H-71 348 [LP]

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