One hour of browsing through early music, with an accent on Masses. A trip through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, during which we listen to Ambrosian chants, the Ars Subtilior and Flemish Vlaamse Polyphonics.
Ambrosian chants
1. Psalmellus: Tecum principium in die virtutis tue
Ensemble Organum conducted by Marcel Pérès. Soeur Marie Keyrouz, soloist
(CD Les Chant des premiers crétiens – Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908164)
Philipoctus de Caserta (fl. 1370)
2. De ma douleur
Ferrara Ensemble under the direction of Crawford Young
Guido (fl. 1372-4)
3. Dieu gart, Rondeau
Ensemble Organum under the direction of Marcel Pérès
(CD Ars Subtilior – Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908169)
Clément Janequin (ca. 1485-1558)
4. Du beau tetin
Ensemble Clément Janequin under the direction of Dominique Visse
Luca Marenzio (ca. 1553-1599)
5. Crudele acerba, 5-voices madrigal
Concerto Vocale under the direction of René Jacobs
John Dowland (1562-1626)
6. Flow, my tears
Alfred Deller, counter tenor. Robert Spencer, lute
(CD Songs de la renaissance – Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908171)
Gilles Binchois (ca. 1400-1460)
7. Je ne vis onques
The Orlando Consort
Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474)
8. O gemma lux et speculum (Triplum) – Sacer pastor Barensium (motetus a 4 voix)
9. Salve flos Tusce gentis (triplum) – Vos nunc, Etrusced iubar (motetus a 4 voix)
Huelgas Ensemble under the direction of Paul van Nevel
(CD Ars Subtilior – Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908169)
