The Feast of Fools

The Feast of Fools - La Fête des Fous - Das Narrenfest
New London Consort - Philip Pickett, dir.
L'Oiseau Lyre « Florilegium » 433 194-2 [CD]
Decca « L'Oiseau-Lyre » 4780028 [CD]

Contents:

    First Vespers

    Anon.:
  1. Lux hodie
  2. Orientis partibus Conductus ad Tabulam
  3. Veni doctor previe
  4. Hec est clara dies

    5. Music from the Office

  5. Festa januaria
  6. Verbum patris humanatur

    7. Perotin:
  7. Salvatoris hodie

    8. The Drinking Bout in the Cathedral Porch

    Anon.:
  8. Kalendas Ianuarius

    9. Mass of the Asses, Drunkards and Gamblers

    Anon.:
  9. Dies festa colitur
  10. Kyrie Asini
  11. Lux optata claruit
  12. Gambler's prayer / malediction
  13. Orientis partibus Conductus Subdiaconi ad Epistolam
  14. Gradualie Bachi
  15. Sequentia: Vinum bonum
  16. Quantus Bachi
  17. Hunc diem / Ite missa est / Deo gratias
  18. Tityri tu patule

    19. Music from the Office

  19. Hac in die salutari
  20. Procedenti puero
  21. Notem fecit Dominus
  22. Verbum patris hodie

    23. Second Vespers - The Ceremony of the Baculus

  23. Deus in adjutorium
  24. Magnificat
  25. Anni novi novitas
  26. Baculi solempnia
  27. Gregis pastor Tityrus
  28. Tityri tu patule Conductus ad Poculum

    29. The Banquet

  29. Novus annus dies magnus
  30. Hac in anni janua

    31. Processional

  31. Verbum caro

Sources:
London Bl Egerton 2615 (Beauvais Officium Circoncisionis)
Sens Bibl. Mun. Codex Senon. 46A (Missel des Fous of Sens)
Munich Universitätsbibl. 2-156 (Moosburg Gradual)
Munich Bayr. Staatsbibl.Clm 4660/4660a (Carmina Burana)
Florence Bibl. Lorenziana Pluteus 29.1
Burgos Codex de las Huelgas
Wolfenbüttel Herzog-August Bibl. Helmst. 628
Cambridge Univ. Lib. Ff 1,17

Performers: New London Consort
Catherine Bott (soprano), Tessa Bonner (soprano), Catherine King (soprano), Julia Gooding (soprano), Olive Simpson (soprano), Jacqueline Barron (soprano), Ana Maria Rincon (soprano), Jenovera Williams (soprano), Kristine Szulik (alto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (baritone), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone), Robert Evans (baritone), Simon Grant (bass), Paula Chateauneuf (lute, gittern), Tom Finucane (gittern), Pavlo Beznosiuk (giitern, fiddles), Mark Levy (gittern, fiddle), Philip Pickett (symphony, recorder, shawm), William Lyons (recorder, shawm), Paul Nieman (trumpet), David Roblou (organ), Stephen Henderson (bells, nakers, tabor)
Philip Pickett, dir.

Playing times: 75' 19"

Recording site and date:
Temple Church, London, UK [02/1990];
Rel.: 1993 (OL), 2008 (Decca)

Excerpts:
[2], [11] L'Oiseau-Lyre 448 559-2 Sinners & Saints - The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection
[31] L'Oiseau-Lyre 448 559-2 The Speech of Angels

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 71/841-81 (june 1993)
Diapason (#-p.): 392-170 (February 1993); 563-97 (November 2008)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 16/6-288 (july/august 1993)

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Pierre-F. Roberge