Bonum Est: a programme on Gregorian Chant. Spanish, Hungarian and other laments.
In Bonum Est’s episode 117 you will hear laments for the last three days of Holy Week.
In good Gregorian tradition, many melodies and texts were added to the original repertoire. During the Renaissance the number of texts was brought back to 9 and only 2 melodies remained.
Today you will hear less fashionable melodies and texts originating from Spain (Silos, Toledo and León) and also from Zagreb, Prague and other places.
Feria V. in Coena Domini – Holy Thursday:
1. Quomodo sedet sola civitas
2. Et egressus est a filia Sion
3. Manum suam misit hostis
Feria VI. in Parasceve – Good Friday:
4. Cogitavit Dominus dissipare
5. Matribus suis dixerunt
6. Ego vir videns paupertatem meam
Sabbato Sancto – Holy Saturday:
7. Misericordiae Domini quia non
8. Quomodo obscuratum est aurum
9. Recordare Domine quid acciderit
Other melodies and texts:
10. Quomodo sedet sola civitas
11. Quomodo obtexit caligine
12. Lamentation de Jérémie
13. Ursus insidians factus est mihi
14. Quomodo sedet sola civitas
1, 9 & 11: Schola Hungarica led by László Dobszay & Janka Szendrei
CD: Gregorian Chants from Medieval Hungary
(Hungaroton SLPX 12049, 1979)
2 & 7: Jean-Pascal Ollivry & Vox Clamantis led by Jaan-Eik Tulve
CD: Ieremias, Chant Grégorien / Chant Hispanique
(ARION ARN 68602, 2003)
3: Maurice Fréchard & Choeur des Pères du Saint Esprit de Chevilly led by Lucien Deiss
CD: Eternel Grégorien – CD 4 – Ave Maria
(StudioSM ADFSM 1080 (4 CDs), 2010)
4: Musica Antigua led by Eduardo Paniagua
CD: Canto Visigotico-Mozarabe
(Pneuma PN 1270, 2011)
5: Damien Poisblaud & Les Chantres du Thoronet
CD: Chants Grégoriens de la Passion
(Psalmus PSAL 016, 2012)
6: Choeur des Moines de l’Abbaye de Santo Domingo de Silos led by Dom Ismael Fernández de la Cuesta
CD: Les 100 Plus Beaux Chants des Monastères – CD 4 – Chant Mozarabe
(Deutsche Grammophon 480 5286 (5 CDs), 1969 / 2011)
8 & 13: Schola Gregoriana Pragensis led by David Eben & Boni Pueri led by Pavel Horák
CD: Adoratio Crucis
(Supraphon SU 3448-2 231, 2000)
10: Wim van Gerven
(Concertzender live recording in ‘De Duif’ (venue ‘The Dove’), Amsterdam, 3th of April 1985)
12: Ensemble Venance Fortunat led by Anne-Marie Deschamps
CD : De Profundis – Déplorations sacrées de la tradition occidentale
(Solstice SOCD 48, 1986)
14: Dominique Fauchard
CD: Variations au piano sur les thèmes grégoriens – La Semaine Sainte
(Bayard Musique S 452677, 2010)
On the picture: the mourning Jeremia from the Sistine Chapel, a fresco by Michelangelo.
