Cathedrals: Vocal Music From The Time of The Great Cathedrals

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The interpretations, including delicate instrumental participation, joyfully avoid studied scholarliness: the result is hypnotic. — Sunday Times, 19th August 2018

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: CHR77420
Label: Christophorus
Length: 57 minutes

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anon.: Tota pulchra es [traditional korsisch, Text altchristlich, 14th century]

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Tota pulchra es

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anon.: Ave Gloriosa Mater Salvatoris [13th-14th Centuries, Trope from the Monastery of Cividale, No. 56]

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Ave gloriosa mater salvatoris

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Gautier de Châtillon: Sol sub nube latuit

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anon.: La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: I. Kyrie

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Von Sanct Victor Adam: O Maria, stella maris

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anon.: Benedicamus [Codex Calixtinus, 12th century]

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Benedicamus

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La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: II. Gloria in excelsis Deo

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anon.: Baculi sollemnia [Conductus zum Fest der Beschneidung Christi (Manuscript F), Notre Dame Schule, 13th century]

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Baculi sollemnia

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Tuotilo: Cuncti potens

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anon.: Deus pacis [Conductus Segensspruch (Manuscript F), Notre Dame Schule, 13th century]

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Deus pacis

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La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: III. Sanctus

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Von Sanct Victor Adam: Salve mater salvatoris

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anon.: Orbis factor [Graduale der Aliénor de Bretagne, 13th century]

Work length5:02

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Orbis factor

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La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: IV. Benedictus

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anon.: Audi pontus [Motet: Codex Las Huelgas]

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Audi pontus (1)

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La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: V. Agnus Dei

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anon.: Audi pontus [Codex Las Huelgas, 13th century]

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Audi pontus (2)

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anon.: Circa mundi vesperam [Conductus zur Karwoche (Florence Manuscript), Notre-Dame-Schule, 13th century]

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Circa mundi vesperam

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La messe de Tournai

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La messe de Tournai: VI. Ite missa est

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Spreading throughout Europe from the 12th century onwards, the vast Gothic church spaces, like wonders of stone suffused with light, inspired the Ensemble VocaMe to produce this CD. Four female singers with an enchanting fusion in unison and large spectra in polyphonic singing, along with the tonal colours of multi-instrumentalist Michael Popp, represent the musical extension and interpretation of the church space. The program consists of sacred music that evolved up to the Gothic period. At its centre is the Tournai Fair held in the 14th century. It is regarded as the earliest testimony of a mass which was entirely set to music, as evidenced by medieval manuscripts.

During the Gothic period, Paris and its cathedral were one of the most important cultural centres from whence the new Gothic spirit spread throughout Europe. The intellectual elite of this period gathered around its large cathedral and many new compositions of the 13th century emanated from this environment, the so-called ‘Notre Dame School’. The compositions, like the Tournai Mass, are part of a high culture of music – music that could probably only be heard in the great cathedrals.

VocaMe combines this with more folk-like or modest melodies from the Codex Calixtinus (book of Saint James) and the Las Huelgas Codex, among others. Thus, a Gothic soundscape emerges, ranging from simple monophony to the splendour of medieval polyphony.

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19th August 2018

The interpretations, including delicate instrumental participation, joyfully avoid studied scholarliness: the result is hypnotic.

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