Hortus Deliciarum - 12th Century Gregorian Chant
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Composer or Director: (composers) Various
Label: Opus 111
Magazine Review Date: 13/1998
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 67
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: OPS30-220
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Cum vox sanguinis (Hildegard von Bingen) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Procedentem sponsum de thalamo (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Diapente et diatesseron (Graduel de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Stephani primi martiris (Hymnaire de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Alleluia - In Maria benignitas (Graduel de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Alleluia - O virga mediatrix (Hildegard von Bingen |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Ite iam sine tristcia (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Enixa est puerpera (Hymnaire de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Sol oritur occasus nescius (Horus deliciarum) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: O rubor sanguinis (Hildegard von Bingen) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Favus distillans Ursula virgo (Hildegard von Binge |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Hec est mater (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Leto leta concio (Hortus deliciarum) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Congaudeat turba fidelium (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Kyrie - Magnus Deus (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Dilexisti iustitiam (Graduel de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Veri floris sub figura (Hortus deliciarum) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Primus parens hominum (Hortus deliciarum) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Offrentur regi virgines (Saint-Gall de Klosterneub |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Sanctus - Phos, patris karitatis (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Agnus Dei - Ave Maria (Codex Engelberg) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Iube Domine (Codex Engelberg/Bréviaire de Cologn |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Navigantes inde sursum (Antiphonaire de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Beata virgo (Codex Engelberg/Bréviaire de Cologn |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
| Hortus Deliciarum, Movement: Sanctis Rome visitatis (Antiphonaire de Pairis) |
(composers) Various, Composer
(composers) Various, Composer Brigitte Lesne, Mezzo soprano Discantus |
Author: mberry
Discantus have produced their own twelfth-century ‘Paradise Garden’, inspired by Hildegard and Herrad. It illuminates the work of these two formidable abbesses, allowing us to hear, besides their modest count of only four items each, many other gems from Pairis, St Gall, Klosterneuburg, Cologne, Engelberg – a whole repertoire of Hymns, Responsories, Propers, troped Ordinaries, troped Benedicamus, a polyphonic lesson, canon and conductus. They themselves walked freely in that full-flowering Hortus Deliciarum: in the case of Hildegard, to hear and perform this music would have helped to mould her own innate, spontaneous gift of melody. A striking example is the double Alleluia towards the end of the recital. At first we hear the Alleluia – In Maria benignitas from the Cistercian Abbey of Pairis, near Colmar. To this is juxtaposed Hildegard’s own brilliant Alleluia – O virga mediatrix. Marie-Noel Colette remarks that these could almost be two verses from the same composition. To my mind that suggests that Hildegard could absorb existing material, making it her own, allowing it to take wing and soar to the heights, return and soar again.
What fun to have included that vocal exercise, Diapente et diatesseron! Composers as well as singers would have benefited from the training; what’s more, it gives us a chance to imagine these nuns hard at work, rehearsing with their monochord.
I was impressed by the style of the chant singing in the florid pieces: the blend, the continuity, the well-chosen moderato assai pulse, exemplary repercussions and breath-control.'
What fun to have included that vocal exercise, Diapente et diatesseron! Composers as well as singers would have benefited from the training; what’s more, it gives us a chance to imagine these nuns hard at work, rehearsing with their monochord.
I was impressed by the style of the chant singing in the florid pieces: the blend, the continuity, the well-chosen moderato assai pulse, exemplary repercussions and breath-control.'
Hortus Deliciarum - 12th Century Gregorian Chant
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