Johannes Ciconia (c.1370-1412) - A discography

This discography is presently in a preliminary state. It is believed to contain a substantial percentage of an eventual full listing, but has not been scoured for completeness or organized into sections based on individual works. It should prove informative nonetheless.

Note also the French Secular Music of the 14th Century listing, which includes three works by Ciconia (per the original Apel listing). The existence of this material presumably delayed creating this file explicitly....

Discographic material below has been collected to this stage with substantial help from Pierre-F. Roberge.

Todd M. McComb

Discography

Original releases

(or first known)

  1. Aliud ACD BH 047-2
    Ciconia / Dufay - Chansons
    Ensemble Fortuna

  2. Allegro "Galaxy" ALG 3029 [LP, mono]
    Italian Madrigal - Ars Nova & XVIth Century
    Vassar Madrigal Singers - Harold Geer, dir.

  3. Alpha 189 [CD]
    Je voy le bon tens venir
    Polyphonies & danses autour de 1400
    Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien - François Lazarevitch, dir.

  4. Arcana A22
    d'Amor Ragionando
    Ballades du neo-Stilnovo en Italie: 1380-1415
    Mala Punica

  5. Arcana A23 [CD]
    En attendant
    L'Art de la citation dans l'Italie des Visconti
    Mala Punica

  6. Archiv Produktion 459 620-2
    The Saracen and the Dove
    Music from the Courts of Padua and Pavia around 1400
    Orlando Consort

  7. Arion ARN 36540 [LP]
    L'Art de mêler les orgues aux instruments à archet
    La Maurache - Julien Skowron, dir.

  8. Ars Noel Publishing NSP 1010 [Cassette]
    Tales and Music of the Middle Ages
    The Quill Consort

  9. Arte Nova 58969
    Oswald von Wolkenstein and his Italian contemporaries
    Les Menestrels

  10. Arte Nova 59210
    O rosa bella
    English and Continental Music from the Late Gothic Period
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic

  11. Blue Heron 1014 [CD]
    Christmas & New Year's
    In 15th-Century France & Burgundy
    Blue Heron - Scott Metcalfe

  12. Bridge 9419
    Fleur de Valeur
    A Medieval Bouquet
    Trefoil

  13. Carpe Diem 16260
    Ciconia, Dufay, Wolkenstein
    Ensemble Alta Musica

  14. Channel Classics 0290
    Johannes Ciconia & his time
    Little Consort

  15. Christophorus 77193
    Gothic Winds
    Ensemble Les haulz et les bas

  16. Christophorus CHR 77194
    Musik der Engel - Music of the Angels
    Italienische Musik des Trecento für Alte Capella und Perkussion - Italian Music of the Trecento for Alta Capella and Percussion
    Les Haulz et les Bas

  17. Christophorus CHR 77296
    Cum Tympano
    Musik des Mitelalters mit Perkussion - Medieval Music with Percussions
    Spielleyt - Early Music Freiburg

  18. Collegium Records JE 105 [LP]
    The Italian Trecento
    The Columbia University Collegium Musicum - Richard Taruskin, dir.

  19. Da Camera "Magna" 91 705 [LP]
    Musica da Camera Italiana
    Charlotte Lehmann, Karslruher Consort - Hans Spengler, dir.

  20. Dervorguilla 105
    Venice, Splendour of the World
    Music for Popes and Doges from 15th-century Italy
    Dufay Consort - Gary Cooper

  21. Dorian Discovery DIS-80155
    Neo-Medieval - Medieval improvisations for a Postmodern Age
    Hesperus

  22. Edizioni Musicali III Millennio CDA 0195
    O Florens rosa
    La Rosa nella Musica del Rinascimento
    La Rossignol

  23. EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 102 [LP]
    Johannes Ciconia
    Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.

  24. Ensemble Laude Novella ELNCD 0302 [CD]
    Den Bakvända visan
    Medeltida musik kors och tvärs - Medieval music back and forth
    Laude Novella

  25. Erato 3984-21661
    Sidus Preclarum
    Ciconia: Complete Motets
    Mala Punica - Pedro Memelsdorff

  26. Eufoda 1360
    Zodiac
    Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior in the Low Countries and Europe
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings

  27. First Hand Records 68 [CD]
    Gardens of Delight
    Roses, Lilies & Other Flowers in Medieval Song
    The Telling - Leah Stuttard

  28. First Hand Records 69
    Of arms and a woman
    Late medieval wind music
    Blondel

  29. Fono Gesellschaft Luzern S 30-4703 [LP]
    Musik aus dem Trecento
    S. Frei, W. Frei

  30. Fuga Libera 815 [CD]
    Exils - Celles qui restent, Celles qui partent...
    Chants des femmes au Moyen Âge / Chants des femmes en chemin / Créations de Thierry De Mey
    Trobar Project - Eugénie De Mey

  31. Glossa GCD P32106 [CD]
    Cesena - Songs for popes, princes and mercenaries
    Graindelavoix - Björn Schmelzer, dir.

  32. Harmonia Mundi "Documenta" 905241
    En doulz chastel de Pavie
    Chansons à la cour des Visconti, 1400
    Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young

  33. Harmonia mundi HMU 90 7038
    Il Solazzo - Music for a medieval banquet
    The Newberry Consort

  34. Harmonia Mundi HMU 90 7185
    Hoquetus
    Medieval European Vocal Music
    Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier

  35. His Master's Voice HMS 25 [78rpm, 30cm]
    Ciconia - Dunstable - Dufay
    A. Deller, A. Wenzinger, M. Majer, G. Flügel
    Schola polifonica - Henry Washington, dir.

  36. Hyperion CDA 67549 [CD]
    Delectatio Angeli
    Music of love, longing & lament
    Catherine Bott and Friends

  37. Jubal A 002
    Fumeux fume par fumee
    Speculum - Ernesto Schmied

  38. Klara 1427
    Klara in Maaseik
    Various performers

  39. Ligia Digital Lidi 030 1112-02 [CD]
    A commodo de virtuosi
    Musique des Flandres et d'Italie des XVe et XVIe siècles
    Landini Consort

  40. Ligia Digital Lidi 0301339-19 [CD]
    Ciconia: O rosa bella
    Ensemble Les Alizés - Clémence Comte

  41. Lindoro 3012
    The Garden with Countless Windows
    Aerodynamic

  42. Linn 529
    Parle qui veut
    Moralizing Songs of the Middle Ages
    Sollazzo Ensemble - Anna Danilevskaia

  43. Lyrichord Expériences Anonymes EA-83 [LP, mono]
    The Ars Nova
    Capella Cordina - Alejandro Planchart, dir.

  44. Melodiya S10 26433 004 [LP]
    J. Ciconia i evo vremia (J. Ciconia and his Time)
    Ancambl starinoi muziki (Ensemble of Ancient Music) Pro Anima

  45. Metronome 1008
    Popes & Antipopes
    Music for the Courts of Avignon & Rome
    Orlando Consort

  46. Mirror music 00002 [LP]
    Ein Fest im Palazzo des umbrischen grafen pierbaldo im Jahre 1400 - A banquet in the palace of the umbrian count pierbaldo in the year 1400 - Une fête au palais du comte pierbaldo d'ombrie en 1400
    Les menestrels - wiener ensemble für alte musik

  47. MSR Classics 1094
    Christo è nato
    Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy
    Trefoil

  48. Musique en Wallonie MW 34 [LP]
    Johannes Ciconia - Madrigaux & Ballades
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir.

  49. Musique en Wallonie MW 80040/80044 [LPx5]
    Johannes Ciconia
    L'Œuvre Intégral
    Huelgas Ensemble – Paul Van Nevel, dir.

  50. Muza AL/EN 2004 [CD]
    Guillaume de Machaut & l'Ars Nova
    Catherine Schroeder with La Maurache

  51. New Albion 048
    Hommage to Ciconia
    Ensemble Project Ars Nova

  52. NM Classics 92064
    Vox Neerlandica 1
    Nederlands Kamerkoor (Netherlands Chamber Choir) - Paul van Nevel, dir.

  53. Noyse Productions (no number) [CD]
    Puzzles and Perfect Beauty
    Newberry Consort - Mary Springfels, dir.

  54. Olive Music om 002 [CD]
    Trecento
    Jill Feldman / Kees Boeke

  55. Opus 111 30-101
    Ciconia: Motets, Virelais, Ballate, Madrigals
    Alla Francesca & Alta

  56. Opus 111 OPS 30-158
    Venite a laudare
    Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot, dir.

  57. Opus 111 OPS 30-201
    Armonia di Flauti
    The Consort Collection, vol. I: Bach - Vivaldi
    Flanders Recorder Quartet

  58. ORF « Alte Musik » SACD 3124 [SACD hybrid]
    Le Ray au soleyl
    Musica alla corte pavese dei Visconti (1360-1402) – Musique à la cour des Visconti à la fin du XIVe siècle
    La Fonte Musica - Michele Pasotti, dir.

  59. Pan Classics 10221
    Sotto l'imperio del possente prince
    Hommage Music of the 14th and 15th Century
    Ensemble Perlaro - Lorenza Donadini, dir.

  60. Pandourion PRCD 1007 [CD]
    French Music of the 14th Century
    Machaut and the Following Generation
    De Organographia

  61. Passacaille 1012 [CD]
    Le Chant de Leschiquier
    Binchois & Dufay songs in the Buxheim Codex
    Tasto Solo - Guillermo Pérez

  62. Pathé-France CPTC 2035 [LP]
    Musiques héraldiques
    Ensemble vocal & Groupe instrumental anciens de Paris - Roger Cotte, cond.

  63. Pineapple Music (no number) [CD]
    Guitars Subtilior
    Branimir Krstic

  64. Pleiades P 250 [LP, stereo]
    Historical Anthology of Music in Performance
    Late Medieval Music
    The University of Chicago Collegium Musicum - Howard M. Brown, dir.; Southern Illinois University Collegium Musicum - Wesley K. Morgan, dir.

  65. Ramée 1901 [CD]
    Song of Beasts
    Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Song
    Ensemble Dragma

  66. Ramée 2008 [CD]
    Mirabilia Musica
    Echoes from late medieval Cracow
    La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti

  67. Raum Klang 4402 [CDx3]
    Kodeks Krasinksi
    Ensemble Peregrina / Ensemble Dragma - Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett

  68. Ricercar 316 [CDx2]
    Ciconia: Opera Omnia
    Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber / La Morra - Corina Marti & Michal Gondko

  69. Ricercar 386
    Think Subtilior
    Cercle des Fumeux: Songs and sounds
    Santenay

  70. Ricercar 388
    In Seculum Viellatoris
    The Medieval Vielle
    Le miroir de musique - Baptiste Romain

  71. Rose 00010 [CD]
    Poverello
    Medieval and Renaisssance Music for Saint Francis of Assisi
    The Rose Ensemble

  72. Symphonia 95142
    Donna, s'amor m'invita
    The vocal and instrumental art of the Ars Nova
    Continens Paradisi

  73. Tactus 230001
    Musicalis scientia
    Il canto goliardico nel medioevo
    Sator Musicae - Roberto Meo

  74. Tactus 400002
    Ballate e Madrigali
    Al tempo della Signoria di Paolo Guinigi (sec. XV)
    Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua / Concentus Lucensis - Stefano Albarello

  75. Telarc CD-80521
    Renaissance of the Spirit
    The music of Orlando di Lasso and his contemporaries
    I Fiamminghi - Rudolf Werthen, cond. & Currende - Eric van Nevel, cond.

  76. Telefunken "Dal Alte Werk" AWT 9505-A [LP, mono]
    Geistliche Musik um 1400 - Religious Music circa 1400
    Ciconia - Dunstable and others
    Capella Antiqua, München - Konrad Ruhland, dir.

  77. Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" SAWT 9524-B [LP, stereo]
    Ciconia - Dufay - Isaac and others
    Festmusik der Renaissance - Ceremonial Music of the Renaissance
    Capella Antiqua, München - Konrad Ruhland, dir.

  78. Trefoil (private pressing)
    Christo e nato / The Melodious Harp
    Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Florence / Songs of the French Ars Subtilior
    Trefoil

  79. Tudor 0501 [LP]
    Das Fest der Pierbaldo (Le Festin de Pierbaldo) nach dem sonettenkranz "Mundus Placidus" des Simon d'Orvieto
    Les menestrels - wiener ensemble für alte musik

  80. Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS-680 [LP, mono, NA]
    Christmas Carols & Motets of Medieval Europe
    The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir. & Musica Antiqua of Vienna - René Clemencic, dir.

  81. Verlag der Spielleute CD 0204 [CDx2]
    Laude novella
    Ein musikalisches Reisetagebuch ... von Baiern nach Italien um 1392
    EST! - Ensemble für Musik des späten Mittelalters

  82. Verso 2005
    Medée Fu
    Ballades & ballate
    Música francesa e italiana de finales del siglo XIV
    Tritonus XIV

  83. Virgin "Veritas" 7243 5 45 357 2 7
    D'amours loial servant
    Chansons d'amour françaises et italiennes des XIVe et XVe siècles - French and Italian love songs of the 14th and 15th centuries - Französiche und italienische Liebeslieder des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts
    Gérard Lesne & Alla Francesca

  84. Voce del Padrone HN 1870 [78rpm, 25cm]
    Anonymous - Ciconia
    S. Danco

  85. Vox "Turnabout" TV S 34512 [LP]
    The Wandering Musicians
    Flemish composers in Renaissance Italy
    The Boston Camerata - Joël Cohen, dir.

  86. Yarlung 05785 [CD]
    Music from the Court of Burgundy
    Ciaramella Ensemble – Adam Knight Gilbert & Rotem Gilbert, dirs.

Reissues

(or otherwise duplicated)

  1. Arion ARN 3 36 028 [LPx3]
    L'art des Instruments anciens
    Various groups

  2. EMI/Electrola "Reflexe" 1C 163 30 101 / 06Y [LPx6]
    REFLEXE Vol. 1 Stationen Europäischer Musik
    Oswald von Wolkenstein - Johannes Ciconia - "Roman de Fauvel" - Ludwig Senfl - Altenglische Consortmusik - Guillaume de Machaut I
    Studio der Frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.
    Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich - Michel Piguet, dir.
    Linde Consort

  3. EMI Classics "Références" 7243 5 65 501 2 4
    HMV Recordings, 1949-1954
    Alfred Deller

  4. Focus 883-4S (2 Cassettes)
    Music in Medieval Europe
    Studio der frühen Music & Early Music Institute - Thomas Binkley, dir.

  5. FSM 33030 / 31 [LPx2, Germany]
    Musik der Renaissance
    Various performers

  6. Harmonia mundi HMX 290 649 / 654 [CDx6]
    Les Très Riches Heures du Moyen-Âge - A Medieval Journey
    Various performers

  7. Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8169 [CD]
    Du style gothique à la Pré-Renaissance / From gothic to Pre-Renaissance (1370-1460)
    Ars Subtilior / Dawn of the Renaissance
    Various performers

  8. His Master's Voice HMS 20-31 [78rpm x12, 30cm]
    The History of Music in Sound, Vol. III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance
    Various performers

  9. Musical Concepts MC 192 [CDx4 + CD-ROM]
    Alfred Deller « The Complete Vanguard Recordings », Volume THREE
    Christmas Carols and Motets
    Alfred Deller - The Deller Consort

  10. Musique en Wallonie 0101-03 (3 CDs)
    Early Music from Wallonie & Brussels
    Works by Ciconia, Binchois, Tinctoris, etc.
    Ensemble Venance Fortunat, Huelgas Ensemble, etc.

  11. Opus 111 OPS 3000
    Close Encounters in Early Music - Le Temps des Légendes
    Various artists

  12. ORF "Edition Alte Musik" CD 417 [SACD-Hx4] + BONUS CD
    ResOnanzen 2005
    Metropolen
    Various performers

  13. Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 438 [LP]
    History of European Music - Part II: Music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, vol. 2
    Schola Cantorum Londiniensis & Ambrosian Singers - Denis Stevens, musical dir.

  14. Pavane 7345/7 (3 CDs)
    Ciconia: Oeuvre intégrale
    Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel

  15. Ricercar 102 [8 CDs+book]
    The Flemish Polyphony
    Various performers

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