Christmas Music from Medieval

Track Listings

1. Puer Natus Est Nobis, Plainsong

2. Nowell, Nowell: In Bethlem: Nowell: In Bethlem

3. Gaudete

4. Nesciens Mater

5. Song of the Nuns of Chester

6. Coventry Carol (2) Lully, Lulla Thou Little

7. Boar's Head Carol

8. Videte Miraculum

9. Quem Pastores Laudavere

10. Pueri, Concinite

11. O Magnum Mysterium

12. Resonet in Laudibus

13. In Dulci Jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)

14. Riu, Riu Chiu

15. Nesciens Mater

16. Omnes de Saba

Tracks:

Renaissance Song & Dance
Dance Suite - Eramus Widmann - Collection Of1613
Three English Songs For Voices And Instruments
Instrumental Music Of The Early Barogue
Festive Sounds
Trouvere Tunes
The Cabinet Organ
Lauda And Motet
Minstrel Melodies
Medieval Dances

Customer Reviews:

A very nice album for SCAdian ears.......2007-04-25

This is a fun album. it's festive, playful, and a real joy to listen to. There is something for everyone in this album--including and especially SCAdians. In fact there's probably at least one piece on this album that every SCAdian dancer, musician, and/or bard will recognize. There's courtly songs, love songs, and get out of your chair dances, even formal pieces you associate with concert halls.

Whether you play in the SCA or just love great historical music, this is one of the better albums I've ever bought--on amazon or anywhere else!

Recording is defective.......2007-04-06

The first one I got had a lot of popping and crackling, and some digital defects that cause the CD player to skip. I liked the music so I bought another copy and it was the same. Both wound up in the trash. Don't waste your money on this disk.

adequate performances but totally inadequate information.......2005-04-27

It is perhaps unfair to judge the performances on this recording (presumably made in the late 1950s/early 60s? - we are not given a date) by modern standards of early music performance. Yes, there are moments when the experimental nature of the approach is all too apparent, both in terms of the [im]plausibility of the interpretations and in the [at times] excruciating intonation (a particularly pertinent example is the shawm playing in track 10). But what is in fact by far the most deplorable feature of this recording is the utter sparsity of information provided - about the performers, the instruments, the composers, the repertoire, etc. Worse still, what little that is provided is often hopelessly inaccurate: sometimes in the form of blatant spelling errors (eg the Coventry Carol becomes here 'Lully Lullary', etc), at other times factual blunders (the medieval 'Estampie' in track 10 is in fact a 16th cent [ie Renaissance] tourdion, 'Quand je bois du vin clairet', whilst John Dowland's 'Frogg Galliard', c.1597, is here given an anonymous attribution...etc, etc, etc).

In short, for those not acquainted with pre-Baroque music, this is NOT a good place to start!!! Seasoned Early Music connoisseurs, on the other hand, may find a perverse pleasure in some atrocious moments, or perhaps take interest in its value as an example of historically informed performance style in the pioneering years - but you have been warned!!

For those interested, here are some alternative recommendations if you are new to this music: firstly, 2 wide-ranging compilations by 2 well-known ensembles -

1. Sinners and Saints - The New London Consort/Philip Pickett (Decca 48559)
2. Portrait ('Moyen Age et Renaissance') - Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall (Auvidis Fontalis 'Portrait' ES9904), or either of the 2 new compilations by Savall and his ensemble(s) on Alia Vox ('Harmonie Universelle', AV9810; 'Harmonie Universelle II', AV9839).

and a compilation (mostly of early music) featuring a number of different groups -

'Pastime with Good Company' (Alpha, A901) [includes groups like L'Arpegiatta, Le Poeme Harmonique, Diabolus in Musica...]

A nice overview of very early music.......2003-12-02

This was one of the first recordings of early music I ever bought. It's a broad survey of styles and periods, from the 12th to 17th centuries. I've become a more sohisticated listener since then, but I still get this one out fairly regularly. The recording is apparently old and the digital remastering was not done extraordinarily well, but those who are more interested in music than in audio equipment should be able to listen through the occasional (minor) vinyl surface noise. My major complaint (why I gave it 3 stars instead of 4) is the lack of documentation--there is no information about the musicians, and many of the composers are uncredited (some because they actually are anonymous, but sometimes out of apparent laziness). Still, at this price it's a bargain.

Don't Be Affraid.......2003-11-19

This cd is worth picking up. Yes the first couple of tracks have pops and crackles in it. And yes it sounds as if the music was transfered directly from a vinyl source. But the performances and selections on this cd are fabulous. And you get use to the flaws in the recordings. Which I find minor.

This cd was actually the first Medieval and Renaissance album I ever bought. I bought it randomly in 1992 to try and introduce myself to these two era's of Classical music. And it was PERFECT. I have been a loyal fan of Medieval & Renaissance music ever since. I currently own 25 to 30 cd's covering these era now. And this album is still one of my favorites......

Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-Century Paris
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Fine performances of some of the very oldest Western music

Strangely compelling

Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-Century Paris

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris, Vol. 2

Le Manuscrit Du Puy - Les Premieres Polyphonies Francaises

ASIN: B000002ZZE
Release Date: 1997-09-09

Tracks:

Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos
Alleluya. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos
Alleluya. Spiritus Sanctus procedens
Alleluya. Paraclitus Spiritus Sanctus
Priusquam te formarem
Alleluya. Inter natos mulierum
Viderunt omnes fines terre
Alleluya. Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis
Alleluya. Pascha nostrum immolatus est

Customer Reviews:

Fine performances of some of the very oldest Western music.......2005-12-08

'Magister Leoninus Sacred Music from 12th Century Paris' by Red Byrd, John Potter, Richard Wistreich and the Capella Amsterdam is some of the very earliest 'old music' I have heard recorded anywhere. From the point of view of a non-musicologist who just happens to like old liturgical music, I recommend this to all people with similar interests.

My only disappointment is that the recording is not that of an entire mass, but of several pieces of masses from the important Christian festival days, most especially Christmas and Easter.

As usual, the Hyperion package and recording quality is first rate. The age, quality of the performance, and quality of the recording alone should make this an important recording for your colleciton.

Strangely compelling.......2001-01-07

The earliest sacred polyphonic music evolved from plainchant, in the hands of composers like Magister Leoninus. His works as recorded on this disc show how that evolution took place: for a setting of a given text, sections of unison plainchant were interspersed with writing for two voices, based largely on the melodic contours of the plainchant - in other words, re-composition took place.

The programme recorded here features some of Magister Leoninus' finest and most significant works, including "Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos," "Alleluya. Pascha nostrum immolatus est" and "Viderunt omnes terre" - music with a key role in the liturgy at major festivals of the church's year. These particular motets could even be considered as the Christmas and Easter carols of their day: listen to them long enough and they will prove just as irresistable as their familiar modern counterparts.

Part of that irresistability is due to the excellent performances on this disc. Red Byrd, consisting here of its founders John Potter and Richard Wistreich, sings the polyphonic music whilst the Cappella Amsterdam provide the plainchant. Their performance methods show clear signs of research; listening to it, I cannot help but imagine that this is what the music really sounded like when it was first performed. The Amsterdam singers give an exemplary demonstration of how plainchant should be sung: flowing from note to note almost like liquid, clearly enunciated, perfectly in tune and making something out of every word and sound (as though meditating on it). And Red Byrd does even better - John Potter is no stranger to this music, having recorded twelfth century material for ECM and Hyperion with the Hilliard Ensemble (his intonation at the very opening "Alleluya" is a spine-tingling and unforgettable sound); Richard Wistreich supports him with a rich baritone voice and demonstrates remarkable breath control in sustaining the underlying chant. Together, their balance is faultless, their embellishments are exquisite, their phrasing and attention to musical detail is scintillating. To cap it all, the recording venue (not revealed on the box but definitely somewhere in Amsterdam) provides some generous acoustics, completing this vivid aural impression of twelfth century polyphony at its simplest and best.

Tracks:

Ave Spes Nostra [Antiphon]
Mi Aty Atya Isten [Notre P, Dieu ...]
Veni Domina [Antiphon]
O Mundi Domina [Antiphon]
Fuit Virgo [Alleluia]
Vox Clara, Ecce, Intonat [Lo, a Clear Voice Resounds]
Omnes Unanimiter [All Nations of the World]
Dum Medium Silentium [Alors Que le ...]
Primo Tempore Alleviata [In Earlier Times]
Speciosus Forma [Fairer Than the Children of Men]
Novum Decus Oritur [A New Splendor Arises]
Letentur Celi [Let the Heavens Rejoice]
Salvator Noster [Notre Bien-Aim..]
Az Idvnten [Le Signeur ...]
Novus Annus Adiit [LA Nouvelle AnnApproche]
Exulta, Filia Syon [Communion Hymn]
Liber Gerationis [The Genealogy of Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:1-16)]
Gaude et Letare [Antiphon]
Exordium Quadrupalate [Entonnez Ce Motet ...]
Isten, Td [Nous Te Louons, Notre ...]

Customer Reviews:

Surpassing Beauty.......2004-01-14

This was purchased on a whim, but has become a favorite, one that I have given to several friends & family members. We listen to it year-round, not just during the Christmas holidays. The singing is sublime, and the women's voices so perfectly attuned that it sometimes sounds like only one voice. This is one of the very few recordings I own that I can use just as background music, or for falling into sleep & (sometimes rapturous) dreams, or for paying rapt attention when I have the time. The chants are deceptively simple, but unfold complexities when listened to carefully. To my ear, this recording approaches perfection.

Doesn't sound like Chirstmas.......2001-12-22

I purchased this in a effort to expand my Christmas collection. I had great hopes for this album because of its title. I am not rating it mediocre for the recording or preformance. The women's voices are beautiful, the chants are lovely. My problem is that there was nothing to distinguish to the untrained ear that these chants were focused on Christmans. Though I read a bit of latin, I couldn't follow the words well enough when they were sung to feel this was "Christmas" music. For a lover of Latin chants, this would be a terrific album. But for an amateur, this is rather unaccesible.

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To Drive the Dark Away

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ASIN: B000009MF6
Release Date: 1997-08-26

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Epic Song - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble
The Peacock - Tamara Smyslova/Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble
Down By The Volga River - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble
Sun Room - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble
Kind Evening - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble/Houston Audience
The Young Convert - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble/Houston Chorus
Go Tell It On The Mountain - Janice Allen/Stan Strickland/Cambridge Chorus & Audience
Evening Star - Dmitri Pkrovsky & Ensemble/David Langstaff/Houston Chorus
Porushka - Dmitri Pkrovsky Ensemble
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The Great Rostov Bells - The Great Rostov Bells
King David's Psalm 116 - Dimitri Pokrovsky/Men Of ENsemble/Houston Chorus
Birch Tree On The Shore - Women Of Ensemble/Houston Chorus
Sunset - Women Of Ensemble/Houston Chorus
Mary Had A Baby - Belinda Simmons/Tamara Smyslova/Women Of Ensemble/Houston Chorus
Ho, Ho, Ho, Goat! - Houston Children
Proso - Cambridge Children/Sophie Grabanov
We Traveled Through Holy Russia - Dmitri Pokrovsky/Men Of EEnsemble/Houston Chorus
Golden Yarn - Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble/Houston Chorus
The Great Mountain Horns - Mike Barker/Lisa Giocoma/Jeffrey Solomon
Nu Ar Det Jul Igen - Houston Chorus & Band
Vandring I Varlden - Matt Fichtenbaum/Kim McKittrick
Riski Ritaan Polkka - Karelian Folk Music Ensemble/Houston Band
Now Falls The Snow - Houston Chorus/Audience
Brurmarsj Fra Gudbrandsdal - Christian Borlaug/Matt Fichtenbaum
Pappani Talo - Karelian Folks Music Ensemble/Houston Chorus & Band
Talonpojan Tanssi - Karelian Folks Music Ensemble/Houston Chorus & Band
Lift Up Your Hearts - Houston Chorus/Paragon Brass Ensemble/Houston Audience
Sukkeret Er Sottsann - Houston Chorus & Band
Vid Stormyren - Matt Fichtenbaum
Kukku - Karelian Folk Msic Ensemble/Houston Band
Olafur Liljuros - David Nussmann/Men Of Houston Chorus
Byssan Lull - Women Of The Houston Chorus
Den Bergtagna - Cathy Frederick/Women Of Houston Chorus
Julafton - Houston Chorus & Band
Karelian Tune - Karelian Folk Music Ensemble
Kahden Nuoren Rakkaus - Karelian Folk Music Ensemble/Houston Band
Telespringar - Christian Borlaug
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Shining Light, Music from Aquitanian Monasteries

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Relaxing Alternative Music for the Winter Season
Incidental liturgical music. Great listening.
Sounds as pure as water

Shining Light, Music from Aquitanian Monasteries

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ASIN: B000001TZG
Release Date: 1996-10-29

Tracks:

Lux refulget
Verbum patris humanatur o o
Ora pro nobis beate Nicolae
Cantu miro summa laude
Instrumental piece
Veri solis radius
Divinum stillant
Instrumental piece
Orienti Oriens
Per parfum virginis
Congaudet hodie
Virga Jesse floruit
Senescente mundano filio
Radix Iesse castitatis lilium
Omnis curet homo
Benedicamus domino: Stirps Iesse florigeram
Resonemus hoc natali
Resonemus hoc natali (II)
Ad infantum triumphantum
Instrumental piece

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing Alternative Music for the Winter Season.......2007-01-10

"Shining Light" will lift your spirits during the gloomy winter months, and is a great alternative to over-played commercialized Christmas music. This is a wonderful collection of ancient music that provides a soothing and meditative experience.

Incidental liturgical music. Great listening........2005-12-16

'shining light' performed by Sequentia, the Ensemble for medieval music, is an excellent collection, running for over 70 minutes, of fragments of instrumental music and vocal music in Latin from monasteries in and around the southwestern French city of Limoges.

While this may not rate five stars as an academic piece, it is certainly worth the ranking as music easy on the ears, combining instrumental, male, and female choral music.

I wlll let the scholars fight it out. I simply find it an excellent collection of early music performances.

Sounds as pure as water.......2001-01-04

This disc is so beautiful, so full majesty and spirituality. It can quiet the stress and bring sweet comfort. The Sequentia singers so clean-sounding. Their voices have never sounded so pure, like the running of the streams. The chasms of the earth and the sea would be moved to the sounds.

Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris, Vol. 2

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Lost Music Reborn

Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris, Vol. 2
Red Byrd Ensemble
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Customer Reviews:

Lost Music Reborn.......2005-05-18

The ensemble Red Byrd presents sacred music from 12th century Paris by Magister Leoninus (fl 1163-1190).

"'Lost music re-born' said BBC Music Magazine of 'Magister Leoninus 1' issued in 1997. That disc won a Diapason d'Or d'Année and appeared among the BBC's 'Best of the Year' discs. Here, therefore, is a second CD of austere and beautiful music by this mysterious master from the 12th-century School of Notre Dame, of whose name we are not even sure. Red Byrd's new recording includes compositions for three of the most important feasts in the liturgical year: Christmas, Easter and Pentecost." (Hyperion-records.co.uk)

The works on this recording:

Christmas
1. Iudea et Iherusalem
2. Descendit de celis

Easter
3. Et valde mane
4. Christus resurgens
5. Sedit angelus

Pentecost
6. Dum conplerentur
7. Advenit ignis
8. Repleti sunt omnes
9. Benedicamus Domino

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substantial antidote to sticky xmas music
The most beautiful music--and not just for Christmas!

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ASIN: B000002ZK4
Release Date: 1993-10-13

Tracks:

Puer Natus Est Nobis, Plainsong
Nowell, Nowell: In Bethlem: Nowell: In Bethlem
Gaudete
Nesciens Mater
Song of the Nuns of Chester
Coventry Carol (2) Lully, Lulla Thou Little
Boar's Head Carol
Videte Miraculum
Quem Pastores Laudavere
Pueri, Concinite
O Magnum Mysterium
Resonet in Laudibus
In Dulci Jubilo (Piantiones)
Riu, Riu Chiu
Nesciens Mater
Omnes de Saba

Customer Reviews:

substantial antidote to sticky xmas music.......2002-12-03

Tired of the Robert Shaw Chorale etc.? Rest your ears on this. If the Coventry Carol as sung here doesn't give you at least a mild case of goose pimples with its perfectly executed dissonances, something's wrong with you. Bring out the groaning board for the festive Boar's Head Carol, and tap along to the synchopations of Gaudete and Riu, Riu Chiu. There's a wide range of feeling in these carols so be prepared to experience quiet solemnity and rousing fun and everything in between while listening to this CD.

The most beautiful music--and not just for Christmas!.......2002-05-02

If you like Medieval and Renaissance music you will absolutely love this CD. I bought it as a Christmas CD years ago and I listen to it year around. The harmonies are beautiful. I have given it to friends for presents. I have CDs of music from this time period but this is my favorite. I very highly recommend it.

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A Handful of Pleasant Delites

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ASIN: B0000030P6
Release Date: 1997-08-19

Tracks:

In A Garden So Grene
The Frog Galliard
All In A Garden Grene
A Toye
Grein Greus Ye Rasses-A Daunce
What Mightie Motion
Passymeasures/The Lady Greensleeves
Fortune Of My Foe
Lyke As The Lark
Crimson Velvet
Our Father Which In Heaven Art
Turkeyloney-Lyke As The Dumb Solsequiem
Kypascie
I Smile To See How you Devise
Merry Cuckolds
Tom O'Bedlam
A Ground
Our Father Which In Heaven Art
Our Father Which In Heaven Art
Jam Lucis Orto Sidere
Taladh Chriosta (Gaelic Lullaby)
Lancashire Pipes
Quarter Braules
Maid Will You Marrie?

Jubilee 2000: 2000 Years of Sacred Music

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TUNEFUL TIMETABLE BUT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO IT

Jubilee 2000: 2000 Years of Sacred Music

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Salve Regina - Chor Of The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos
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Veni Creator - Chor Of The Benedictine Monks Of Santo Domingo De Silos
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Pie Jesu - Young Sgrs Of Saint-Marc
Ave Marie - Sofia Chm Chor
O Weisheit - Chm Chor Versija
Agnus Dei - Chm Chor Versija

Customer Reviews:

TUNEFUL TIMETABLE BUT YOU CAN'T DANCE TO IT.......2003-01-01

Holy homily! For those who like music from a bygone era -- a real long, long, long, long time ago -- here's your relic. This CD celebrates the Top 40 of the Sixth Century: Gregorian chants performed by various artists, including the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, one of the world's most renowned religious choirs. This is tuneful timetable, with stops along the Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism eras. Don't get us wrong, but we don't think it has a pray of a chance of making our playlist.

Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (Box Set)

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Go To Amazon.com/uk
Wonderful Set, but why pay this much?

Thomas Tallis: The Complete Works (Box Set)

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Go To Amazon.com/uk.......2006-02-23

Thank you Paul Schleuse. Your review is right on, and most importantly, I paid $113. (including shipping) from amazon.com/uk to Boston. Less than halk the price here.

Wonderful Set, but why pay this much?.......2005-07-30

This is a landmark set: the complete works of one of the most important composers of the 16th century, in performances of grace and clarity. However, you can get it for less than half of the US price by buying it at Amazon.co.uk. At GBP65.20, it works out to just over $100, or about $10 per disc--quite a bargain on a major addition to any serious early-music collection.

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1. Puer Natus Est Nobis, Plainsong
2. Nowell, Nowell: In Bethlem: Nowell: In Bethlem
3. Gaudete
4. Nesciens Mater
5. Song of the Nuns of Chester
6. Coventry Carol (2) Lully, Lulla Thou Little
7. Boar's Head Carol
8. Videte Miraculum
9. Quem Pastores Laudavere
10. Pueri, Concinite
11. O Magnum Mysterium
12. Resonet in Laudibus
13. In Dulci Jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
14. Riu, Riu Chiu
15. Nesciens Mater
16. Omnes de Saba