Garland Dances

Garland Dances - Dances IV

The Renaissance Players - Winsome Evans, dir.
Walsingham WAL 8006-2

Contents:

Guillaume d'Amiens, Rome, Bibl. Vat. Reg. Lat. 1490, f. 119v.:

1. C'est la fins

Anon., Carmina Burana, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., clm 4660:

2. CB 168: Annualis mea
   Anon., Manuscrit Bayeux, Paris, Bibl. Nat. Fr. 8346: Voici le mai

Gui, Il Chastelain de Couci, Paris, Bibl. Nat. Fr. 844, f.53v:

3. Li nouviaux tans

Snave Pluckplayers, 20th c., Codex Snaviensis*:

4. Estampie Chemin

Audefroi li Bastars, Paris, Bibl. Nat. Fr. 844, f.151:

5. Bele Emmelos

Anon., Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibl., Helmstedt 1099, f. 234r:

6. Hyer matin a l'enjornee

Anon., Rome, Bibl. Vat. Reg. Lat. 1490:

7. Bele Aielis par matin se leva
   Anon., Rome, Bibl. Vat. Reg. Lat. 1725, f. 7v: Maint se levoit Aaliz

Anon., London, Brit. Lib., Egerton 2615, f. 1r:

8. Orientis partibus

Anon., Carmina Burana & Snave Pluckplayers, 20th c., Codex Snaviensis*:

9. Vacillantis trutine*

Anon., Carmina Burana, Carmina Burana, Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibl., clm 4660:

10. CB 75: Omittamus studia
    Guillaume d'Amiens, Rome, Bibl. Vat. Reg. Lat. 1490, f. 119v:
    Prendes i garde

Anon., Lille, Bibl. Mun., MS 397, f. 36r:

11. Nobilitas ornata moribus

Playing time: 62' 18"

Performers: The Renaissance Players [Winsome Evans (folk whistle, treble and alto shawm, bombarde, sinfonye, portative organ, harp, psaltery), Benedict Hames (vielle, gemshorn), Nick Wales (vielle), Llew Kiek (gittern, baglama), Belinda Montgomery (soprano, mandora, diwan saz), Melissa Irwin (soprano, ud, gittern, diwan saz, tambourine), Andrew Lambkin (tapan, darabukka, daireh, tabor), Barbara Stackpool (castanets, tambourine, finger cymbals), Mina Kanaridis (soprano), David May (poetry reader)] - Winsome Evans, dir.

Recording site and date:
St. Peters, Sydney, Australia [1995 or prior]

Other releases (identical, first and re-releases): This is the original CD release

Other releases by this group: As of may 1997, Renaissance Players has recorded 7 CDs for Walsingham records; a complete list can be found at Walsingham WAL 8003-2 The Muses' Gift

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

Comments:
Information from owned CD. Items identified (*) with Codex Snaviensis are from a compilation of newly composed melodies, mediaeval in style and structure and dance rearrangements of pre-existent medieval melodic fragments.

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