Works by the monks Notker, Ratpert, Tuotilo Gallus, Nativitas, Johannes Evangelista, Innocentes, Epiphania, Versus ad processionem diebus dominicis, Pascha, Dominica IV post octavam pascham, Ascensio, Pentecostes
Raphaël Boulay (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Dominique Vellard (tenor), Emmanuel Bonnardot (baritone), Jacques Bona (bass) & Stephen Grant (bass)
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Recorded Église de Romainmôtier, Vaud, Switzerland April 1996.
The Benedictine monastery of Saint Gall (Sankt Gallen), situated near Lake Constance, acted in the early medieval period as a creative centre for the development of music and poetry concerned with the liturgy. To be found there were the oldest named composer-poets from the West, especially monks such as Ratpert (d. 890), Notker (d. 912) and Tuotilo (d. 913). They enlarged and broadened out the scope of existing liturgical chants with additions whose melodic and poetic inventiveness still provoke admiration today. Such tropes and sequences were brought together in the 10th century in Sankt Gallen’s codices 484 and 381, with a precise notation in numes which is unique to the Abbey.
Across a number of important and far-reaching recordings, musicologist Wulf Arlt and Dominique Vellard along with his Ensemble Gilles Binchois have recovered and revived broad areas of medieval music. This collection of works from Sankt Gallen, which we are now reissuing, occupies a distinguished and noteworthy position because it presents the first music of Western culture which can be ascribed to individual creators. The recording itself was made in one of the most beautiful Romanesque churches in Switzerland in Romainmôtier.
Anonymous: Iustus ut palma [Gallus: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Iustus ut palma [Gallus: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Notker: Dilecte deo
Dilecte deo
Anonymous: Hodie cantandus est - Hodie natus est [Nativitas: Introitus, 9th Century]
Hodie cantandus est - Hodie natus est [Nativitas: Introitus, 9th Century]
Anonymous: Dies sanctificatus [Nativitas: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Dies sanctificatus [Nativitas: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Notker: Natus ante sæcula
Natus ante sæcula
Tuotilo: Hodie pectore mundo - Cernere quod
Hodie pectore mundo - Cernere quod
Notker: Dilectus iste - Quoniam dominus - Os tuum inquiens - Milibus argenti
Dilectus iste - Quoniam dominus - Os tuum inquiens - Milibus argenti
Notker: Laus tibi Christe
Laus tibi Christe
Anonymous: Hodie clarissimam [Epiphania: 9th Century] - Forma speciosissimus - Olim quem [Epiphania, 9th Century]
Hodie clarissimam [Epiphania: 9th Century] - Forma speciosissimus - Olim quem [Epiphania, 9th Century]
Ratpert: Ardua spes mundi
Ardua spes mundi
Tuotilo: Gaudete et cantate - Monumenta aperta sunt - Notus est dominus - In pace factus est [Pascha: Offertorium, 9th Century]
to Gaudete et cantate - Monumenta aperta sunt - Notus est dominus - In pace factus est [Pascha: Offertorium, 9th Century]
Notker: Laeta mente
Laeta mente
Notker: Ex numero frequentium - Quasi quid
Ex numero frequentium - Quasi quid
Anonymous: Dominus in Sina [Ascensio: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Dominus in Sina [Ascensio: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Anonymous: Viri Galilaei [Ascensio: Offertorium, 9th Century]
Viri Galilaei [Ascensio: Offertorium, 9th Century]
Anonymous: Spiritus domini [Pentecostes: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Spiritus domini [Pentecostes: Alleluia, 9th Century]
Iustus ut palma [Gallus: Alleluia, 9th Century]