CRUX Parisian Easter music from the 13th & 14th centuries
Ensemble Peregrina Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett
GCD 922505 Glossa SCB. 1 CD. Digipak
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Performing artists
Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, voice & harp Kelly Landerkin, voice Lorenza Donadini, voice Baptiste Romain, vielle & rubeba
Production details
Total playing time 70:44 Recorded in the Heilige Kreuz Kirche Binningen- Bottmingen (Switzerland) in June 2010 Engineered and produced by Malgorzata Albinska-Frank Executive producers: Thomas Drescher (SCB), Carlos Céster (Glossa) Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essays: Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett English Français Deutsch Español
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Parisian Easter music from the 13th & 14th centuries
Breves dies hominis[Paris, 13th century; 1-voice rondellus]
Estampie I[vielle]
Quis tibi Christe meritas[Paris, 13th century; 3-voice conductus]
Homo vide que pro te patior[Philip the Chancellor (c. 1165-1236); 1-voice conductus]
Clavus pungens acumine[Philip the Chancellor; 2-voice conductus]
A sinu Patris mittitur[Paris, 13th century; 1-voice rondellus]
Planctus ante nescia[Geoffrey of St. Victor (d. 1198); 1-voice prosa]
Cruci Domini / Crux, forma / PORTARE[Paris, 13th century; 1-voice motet]
Crux, de te volo conqueri[Philip the Chancellor; 1-voice conductus]
Estampie II[vielle]
Stabat iuxta Christi crucem[Burgos, 14th century; 1-voice prosa]
Vineam meam plantavi[Paris, 13th century; 1-voice rondellus]
Adam novus[Fleury, 13th century; 1-voice song]
Surgit Christus cum tropheo[Prague, 14th century; 1-voice sequence]
Victime paschali laudes[Burgos, 14th century; 2-voice prosa]
Nota[rubeba]
Resurgentis Domini[Burgos, 14th century; 3-voice Benedicamus]
Mors vite propitia[Paris, 13th century; 1-voice rondellus]
About this CD
Last spring Glossa started bringing out recordings as part of a new agreement with the long- established Schola Cantorum in Basle and a brand new title from Ensemble Peregrina further demonstrates the vitality of the music-making, teaching and studying at the Swiss music institution. For over a decade the Basle-based Peregrina has been focusing on secular and sacred medieval music, following the completion of the individual ensemble members’ studies at the SCB. The group endeavours to illuminate medieval times with its programmes which pay close attention to textual and musical interrelationships. Led by Agnieszka Budzinska-Bennett, Peregrina is currently made up of artists from Italy, France, Poland and the United States and for its Glossa SCB recording it presents a programme from the High Middle Ages of the 13th and 14th centuries in Europe.
With monophonic and polyphonic French repertory from the Notre-Dame School – including a good selection of pieces by poet, preacher and philosopher Philip the Chancellor – and Aquitanian nova cantica as found in the Spanish Las Huelgas Codex from a century later, the three female singers of Ensemble Peregrina (joined by Baptiste Romain on vielle and rubeba) explore an Eastertime programme built around motifs of the Cross, Resurrection and medieval Christians’ approach to mortality. Ensemble Peregrina bring a colourful and dramatic sensibility to important musical remains from over seven centuries past, telling a highly entertaining story with great skill.
It is not only discerning music lovers around the globe who are giving a warm welcome to the recordings which are being published on Glossa; critical approval in the specialist media has been joining in as well. One example of the latter is the newly-instigated International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) which, for its inaugural 2011 edition, has chosen no less than nine of Glossa’s recent releases in its initial nominations. [read more...]
Central to the research into and the performance of early music since the beginnings of the renewed interest into music from previous centuries the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) remains an extraordinary powerhouse of talent ranging over music from the early Middle Ages through to the 19th century. Today its pupils are legion, as too are its teachers, amply fulfilling the aspirations of Paul Sacher when he founded the institution in Switzerland in 1933. In an agreement recently made between Glossa and the SCB fresh new life is being breathed into the desire to bring the fruits of all this musical activity to a much wider worldwide audience through recordings. [read more...]