Johannes Ciconia - L'Oeuvre Intégral

Johannes Ciconia - L'Oeuvre Intégral
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel, dir.
Musique en Wallonie MW 80040/80044 (LPx5)

Contents:

    LP-1

    Oeuvres italiennes - I

  1. Una Panthera (madrigal; 3 voices, bombard, 2 sackbuts)
  2. Chi nel servir (ballata; voice, échaquier, vielle)
  3. Poy che morir (ballata; voice, recorder, rebec)
  4. I cani sono fuora (madrigal; 2 voices, lute)

    5. ----

    Motets - I

  5. Albane misse celitus (isorhythmic motet; choir, shawm, 2 bombards)
  6. O Petre Christi (motet; voice, bombard, sackbut)
  7. O virum omnimoda (isorhythmic motet; 3 voices, 2 shawms, 2 bombards)
  8. Doctorum principem (isorhythmic motet; 2 voices, 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts)

    9. LP-2

    Parties de Messes - I

  9. Et in terra pax & Patrem Omnipotentem (Gloria & Credo; 2 voices, choir, 2 bombards, 2 sackbuts, organ)
  10. Et in terra pax & Patrem Omnipotentem (troped Gloria & Credo; 2 voices, bombard, sackbut)

    11. ----

    Oeuvres italiennes - II

  11. O rosa bella (ballata; voice, lute, vielle)
  12. Chaçando un giorno (madrigal; shawm, bombard)
  13. Lizadra donna (ballata; voice, vihuela, vielle)
  14. Deduto sei a quel (ballata; 2 voices, 2 krumhorns)

    15. LP-3

    Oeuvres françaises

  15. Le ray au soleyl (proportional canon; shawm, 2 bombards)
  16. Aler men veus (chanson-ballata; voice, lute)
  17. Quod jactatur (canon; lute, vielle, recorder)
  18. Sus un fontayne (virelai; voice, échaquier, vielle)

    19. Motets - II

  19. Petrum Marcello (isorhythmic motet; 2 sopranos, 2 shawms, 2 sackbuts, 2 cornets)

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  20. Ut te per omnes (motet; 2 voices, 2 bombards, 2 sackbuts)
  21. O felix templum (motet; choir, 3 bombards)
  22. O beatum incendium (motet; choir, organ)
  23. O Padua sidus praeclarum (motet; 3 voices, bombard, sackbut)

    24. LP-4

    Oeuvres italiennes - III

  24. Merçe o morte (ballata; voice, sackbut, rebec, recorder)
  25. La fiamma del to amor (ballata; voice, rebec, recorder)
  26. O donna crudele (dubious attribution)
  27. Per quella strada lactea (madrigal; 2 voices, sackbut)

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    Parties de Messes - II

  28. Et in terra pax (Gloria; 4 voices, rebec, 2 sackbuts, organ)
  29. Et in terra pax & Patrem Omnipotentem (Gloria & Credo; 5 voices, cornet, vielle, sackbut)
  30. Et in terra pax (troped Gloria; 4 voices, 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts)

    31. LP-5

    Motets - III

  31. Regina gloriosa (motet; voice, cornet, échaquier, vielle)
  32. Venecie mundi splendor (motet; choir, cornet, organ)

    33. Parties de Messes - III

  33. Et in terra pax (troped Gloria; 2 voices, cornet, organ)
  34. Patrem omnipotentem (Credo; voice, sackbut, organ)

    35. ----

    Oeuvres italiennes - III

  35. Dolçe fortuna (ballata; voice, échaquier)
  36. Chi vole amar (ballata; 3 voices, lute)
  37. Con lagreme bagnandome nel viso (ballata; voice, échaquier, rebec)

Playing time: 3h 21' app.

Performers:
Huelgas Ensemble [Wim Becu (sackbut), Josep Benet (tenor), Willem Bremer (bombard, cornet), Philippe Cantor (bass), John Dudley (tenor), Nils Ferber (shawm, krumhorn, bombard), Christine Frantzen (lute, vihuela), Jo Gulinck (bass), Nancy Long (soprano), Marcel Onsia (organ, sackbut), Ingrid Smit Duyzentkunst (soprano), Alain Sobczak (shawm, bombard, krumhorn), René Van Laken (rebec, vielle, bombard), Paul Van Nevel (recorders, bombard, échaquier, organ), Marion Verbruggen (cornet), Howard Weiner (sackbut); Anne Crabbe, Rila Joris, An Mertens, Chris Nieuwenhuysen, Ingrid Wage, Ingrid Westerlaak (choir)] - Paul Van Nevel, dir.

Recording site and date:
Abbaye Het Park & Chapelle des prêtres du Sacré-Coeur, Louvain (Leuwen), Belgium [10 & 12/1980]

Excerpts:
[1]-[25], [27]-[37] Pavane ADW 7345/47 [CD] Johannes Ciconia Oeuvre intégrale - The complete works

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 291-58 (february 1984); for Pavane CD: 449-62 (june 1998)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): For Pavane CD: 75/901-99 (may 1998)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 7/4- (march-april 1984); For Pavane CD: 12/6-122 (july-august 1998)

Comments:
Information from owned LP and CD. The CD version deleted an italian song very dubiously attributed to Ciconia [26]. This album came with a superb 58 pp. booklet "Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1370-1411) - Étude musicale et historique" by Paul Van Nevel.

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