Secret voices [CD] : chant & polyphony from the Las Huelgas Codex, c. 1300.

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Corporate Author:

Anonymous 4 (Musical group)

Publication Date:

2011

Publication Information:

[Arles, France] : Harmonia Mundi ; [Burbank, Calif.] : Production USA, ℗2011.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (58 min., 27 sec.) : digital, SACD ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Abstract:

Anonymous 4 revisit their favorite era in repertoire that illuminates medieval women's affinity for the most complex polyphony of their time. Spanning the entire 13th century the remarkable Las Huelgas manuscript was compiled for a convent of aristocratic Castilian women who (in spite of a rule forbidding Cistercian nuns from singing polyphony) sang the most beautiful, advanced and demanding music from all across Gothic-era Europe.

General Note:

Super audio compact disc (hybrid; multi-channel and stereo sound; playable on CD and SACD players).

Program notes by Susan Hellauer in English with German and French translations, texts with English, German, and French translations, and Anonymous 4 discography (55 p. : col. ill., col. port.) inserted in container.

Performers:

Anonymous 4 (Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek).

Contents:

First light. Virgines egregie (2:58) ; Ave maris stella (3:10) ; Claustrum pudicicie/Virgo viget/FLOS FILIUS (2:18) -- Morning. Fa fa mi/Ut re mi (1:23) ; O Maria virgo/O Maria maris stella/IN VERITATE (3:17) ; Benedicamus domino : cum cantico (1:29) -- Mass. Salve porta/Salve salus/Salve sancta parens (0:56) ; Kirie : Rex virginum amator (4:19) ; Gloria : Spiritus et alme (5:30) ; Verbum bonum et suave (2:46) ; Salve virgo regia/Ave gloriosa mater/DOMINO (2:59) ; Sanctus & Benedictus (1:39) ; Gaude virgo nobilis/Verbum caro factum/ET VERITATE (2:42) ; Agnus Dei : Gloriosa spes reorum (3:27) ; O monialis conscio (3:06) ; Benedicamus domino : Belial vocatur (1:57) -- Evening. In virgulto gracie (3:02) ; Ave regina celorum/Alma redemptoris mater/ALMA (1:50) ; Benedicamus domino à 3 (rondellus) (1:32) -- Night. Si vocatus ad nupcias (1:26) ; Mater patris et filia (4:22) ; Benedicamus domino à 2 (0:42) ; Omnium in te Christe (1:35).

Subject Term:

Sacred vocal music -- Spain -- 500-1400.

Gregorian chants.

Masses, Unaccompanied.

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