Brigitte Lesne & Disanctus – Gilles Bichois: l’Argument de Beauté

Album : l’Argument de Beauté

Performers : Brigitte Lesne & Disanctus

Release date : 2010

Number of discs : 1

Label : AEON

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 00:53 :53

Tracklist:

1 - Ave corpus christi - contrafactum sur une chanson de Gilles Binchois

2 - Kyrie - Gilles Binchois

3 - Omnes una gaudeamus - carol

4 - Gloria - attribué à Gilles Binchois

5 - Diffusa est gratia / verset Propter veritatem - graduel

6 - Sanctus - Gilles Binchois

7 - Agnus dei - Gilles Binchois

8 - Ecce quod natura - carol [joué aux cloches]

9 - Salve sancta parens - introït, Gilles Binchois

10 - Alleluia / verset Salve mundi

11 - Salve sancta parens - carol

12 - Da pacem domine - antienne, Gilles Binchois

13 - Virgo rosa venustatis - contrafactum sur une chanson de Gilles Binchois

14 - Priusquam te formaret / verset Misit dominus - graduel

15 - Inter natos mulierum / verset Fuit homo - repons

16 - Ut queant laxis - hymne, Gilles Binchois

17 - Princeps serenissime - carol

18 - Alleluia / verset Gaude dei genitrix

19 - A solis ortus cardine - hymne, Gilles Binchois

20 - Benedicamus domino Deo gratias - repons, Gilles Binchois

Ensemble Discantus, founded in 1989, made their considered reputation in recordings on Opus111 and later for Zigzag. Here in their Aeon debut these 15th-century polyphonies, musica ficta - accidentals not noted in the manuscripts but which have to be added in the melodic line - is left to the art of these able performers, under the direction of Brigitte Lesne.

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Eduardo Paniagua & Musica Antigua – Cantigas de Italia

Album : Cantigas de Italia – Alfonso X El Sabio

Performer : Eduardo Paniagua & Musica Antigua

Release date : 1998

Label :  Pneuma

Catalog #: PN-510

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 01:02:32

Tracklist:

1.    CSM 327: Las piernas "Porque ben Santa María sabe os seus dões dar," (instr.)

2.    CSM 293: El juglar de Lombardía "Par Deus muit' é gran dereito"

3.    CSM 206: El Papa Leon de Roma "Quen souber Santa María"

4.    CSM 335: Idolos de Sicilia "Com' en si naturalmente"

5.    CSM 407: Ciego por el demonio "Como o demo cofonder" (instr.)

6.    CSM 136: La imagen de foggia de Apulia "Poi-las figuras fazen dos santos"

7.    CSM 219: El púlpito de Siena "Non conven aa omagen"

8.    CSM 87: El obispo de Pavia "Muito punna d'os seus onrrar"

9.    CSM 92: Clérigo ciego "Santa María poder á" (instr.)

10. CSM 73: La casulla de Turin "Ben pod' as cousas feas"

11. CSM 132: El clérigo de Pisa "Quen leixar Santa María"

Performers:

Música Antigua [Paula Vega (soprano), Patricia Paz (soprano), Luis Vincent (counter-tenor & canno), Germán Torrellas (bajo), Felipe Sánchez (vihuela de peñola & bandurria medieval), Rafael Martín (zanfona), Javier Coble (siringa), Enrique Almendros (arpa, chirimia, gaita, flauta de tres agujeros con tambor, y gaita charra con tambor), Jaime Muiñoz (axabeba, kaval & cálamo), Luis Delgado (organo portativ, tromba marina, darbuga, bendir, tambor con tensores, pandero, tar, pandereta, cántaras & carraca), Eduardo Paniagua (salterio, flautas a bisel tenor, fahl, flauta pastoril, campanil, darbuga, agual, tar, sistro de madera, espadilla, carraca & cimbalos) - Eduardo Paniagua, dir.

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Gregorio Paniagua – Las Cantigas de Hita (Alfonso X, El Sabio)

Album : Las Cantigas de Hita del Alfonso X, El Sabio

Artist : Gregorio Paniagua & Atrium Musicae

Release date : 1996

Number of discs : 1

Lable : Hispavox

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 00:40:57

Tracklist:

Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita

1.      "De como clerigos e legos e flaires e monjas e dueñas e joglares, salieron a reçebir a Don Amor" (8' 00")

Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria

2.      Cantiga 83: Aos seus acomendato (13' 13")
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Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria

3.      Cantiga 318: Queen a Deus et a ssa Madre (19' 42") 

Atrium Musicae was an early music ensemble from Madrid, Spain, founded in 1964 by Gregorio Paniagua, a Spanish monk.

Atrium Musicae:

[Gregorio Paniagua, Eduardo Paniagua, Cristina Ubeda, Pablo Cano, Beatriz Amo, Luis Paniagua, Carlos Paniagua] - Gregorio Paniagua, dir. (They all sing and play a large variety of instruments, up to a dozen each) 

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Alla Francesca – Llibre Vermell de Monserrat

Album : Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

Performer : Alla Francesca

Release date : 1995

Label :  ARTS Music

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 01:06:24

Tracklist:

Anon., Las Huelgas Ms.:

1. In virgulto gracie
   Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
2. Cantiga 48: Tanto son da groriosa
3. Cantiga 302: A Madre de Jhesu Christo
4. Cantiga 57: Mui grandes noit'e dia
   Anon., Las Huelgas Ms.:
5. Casta catolica
   Anon., Llibre Vermell de Montserrat:
6. O virgo splendens
7. Stella splendens in monte
8. Laudemus virgiriem / Splendcns ceptgera
9. Los set goytx
10. Cuncti simus
11. Polorum regina
12. Inperayritz de la ciutat joyosa
13. Mariam matrem virginem
14. Inperayritz de la ciutat joyosa
15. Los set goytx
16. Ad mortem festinamus 

Pilgrim songs and dances associated with the Shrine to the Virgin of Montserrat.

As such, the purpose of the compilation is made clear by its anonymous compiler himself:

Quia interdum peregrini quando vigilant in ecclesia Beate Marie de Monte Serrato volunt cantare et trepudiare, et etiam in platea de die, et ibi non debeant nisi honestas ac devotas cantilenas cantare, idcirco superius et inferius alique sunt scripte. Et de hoc uti debent honeste et parce, ne perturbent perseverantes in orationibus et devotis contemplationibus.

"Because the pilgrims wish to sing and dance while they keep their watch at night in the church of the Blessed Mary of Montserrat, and also in the light of day; and in the church no songs should be sung unless they are chaste and pious, for that reason these songs that appear here have been written. And these should be used modestly, and take care that no one who keeps watch in prayer and contemplation is disturbed."




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Theatrum Instrumentorum – Llibre Vermell de Monserrat

Album : Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

Performer : Theatrum Instrumentorum

Release date : 1997

Label :  ARTS Music

Number of discs : 1

Genre : Medieval

Total time : 00:57:13

Tracklist:

1. O Virgo Splendens 

2. Los Set Goyts 

3. Stella Splendens 

4. Laudemus Virginem/Splendens Ceptigera 

5. Cuncti Simus Concanentes 

6. Mariam Matrem Virginem 

7. Nota Cantionis De Illo Viro Capistrano
8. Imperayritz De La Ciutat Joyosa

9. Tuba Gallicalis 

10. Polorum Regina 

11. Cedit Frigus 

12. Ad mortem Festinamus

Pilgrim songs and dances associated with the Shrine to the Virgin of Montserrat.

Between the monody between the cultured, between the sacred and the profane:

the “Llibre Vermell de Montserrat”.

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Misha Alexandrovich – The Tree of Life

Album : The Tree of Life

Performer : Misha Alexandrovich

Release date : 1999

Label : Pläne

Genre : Religious

Number of discs : 1

Total time : 01:15:42

Tracklist:

Traditional chants from the Jewish Liturgy

1. Uveyom Simhatkhem (4:37)
2. Ahavat Olam (7:24)
3. Modim Anachnu (6:59)
4. Umnip Nel Hatoeinu (6:43)
5. Brich Shmei (6:08)
6. Seeirat Haomer (7:16)
7. Retze Vimenuchateinu (5:27)
8. Hatei Elokai Oznecha (7:05)
9. Ki Keshimcha (U-nefanne Toquef) (8:50)
10. Ki Lekach Tov (7:14)
11. Al Harishonim (7:54)

The history of Chazzanuth – the reading of Jewish liturgical texts by the Cantor or Chazzan – in its professional form goes back more than 170 years, but only in the beginning of 20^th century appeared the great masters of this genre.

The liturgical chants which can be heard on this CD have been recorded in 1973 in Israel after his emigration from Soviet Union when Misha Alexandrovich had been appointed Chief Cantor of the Great Synagogue of Ramat Gan

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Maftirim – Judeo-Sufi Connection

Album : Judeo-Sufi Collection

Artist : Maftirim Chorus & Hazan Aaron

Release date : 2001

Label : Kalan Müzik

Number of discs : 1

Genre : World

Total Time : 01:08:10

Tracklist:

1.      Ses Taksim (trad.) 1:08

2.      Azkir Hasde El (Abraham) 5:19

3.      Yismah Ar Tsiyon (Yehuda) 2:31

4.      Hadesh Kekedem (Chaim) 3:16

5.      Mizmor Shir LeYom AShabat (King David) 2:35

6.      Meulal Shem (Behor Mevorah) 3:50

7.      Maru Kol Sharim (Moses) 2:23

8.      Eloe Tsidki (Abraham) 2:54

9.      Hishavti (Shapsi Hayim) 8:15

10.  Ahare Nimkar (trad.) 2:11

11.  Ya Shalad (trad.) 3:06

12.  Yistmah Shalom (Isaac Varon) 2:59

13.  Akav Birhateha (Isaac Varon) 2:51

14.  Yeme Levavi Biroti (Neyzen Yusuf Pasha) 4:35

15.  Yishlah Mishamayim (Tanburi Itzhak) 2:04

16.  El Ar BatSiyon (Avtalyon) 1:48

17.  A_u E_ _u--Lord, our G-d (Moshe Ben Natan) 3:17

18.  El Shelah et Tishbi (Avtalyon) 2:36

19.  Hag Amarkabim (Moshe Beccerano) 3:33 

Even before the Ottoman Sultan Bayezik II invited the Jews who were forced out of Spain in 1492 to settle in what is modern Turkey, Jews had long dwelled there. As in Moorish Spain where Jews and Muslims shared culture including music, Jews found a kindred spirit with Sufis in Turkey, and their mystical poetic hymns were a model for Jewish maftirim, sung before sabbath and other services. This album from Turkey is in the form of a 63-page book (like Putumayo and Rough Guide issues) written in Turkish and English (more text is in Turkish), with photographs. A brief history of Jews in Turkey is presented along with information on the composers and poets of hymns from the Renaissance to more contemporary times. Track listings include Turkish instrumentation, maqam mode, and particular rite, as Pesach, Shabbat, and Chanukah.

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Hamza Shakkûr & Al-Kindî Ensemble – Sufi Songs of Damaskus

Album : Sufi Songs of Damaskus

Artist : Hamza Shakkûr and the Al-Kindî Ensemble

Release date : 1995

Label :  Long Distance France

Number of discs : 1

Total time : 01:00:34

Tracklist:

[1-2] Al-Salam Al-Rabi :

Traditional arrangement: Julien al-din Weiss

Sacred musical suite in the Mawlawiyya Dervish tradition

Huzam mode

- Taqsim Huzam [composition Abd al-salam safar]

- Taqsim Sikah [composition Julian Jalal al-Din Weiss]

- Mawwal Sikah [composition Hamza Shakkur]

[3-4] Ghayri Ala S-Sulwan Qadir :

Trad. Arr Julien Jalal al-Din

Sacred musical suite in the Mawlawiyya Dervish tradition

Huzam mode

- Taqsim Rast Qanun [composition Julian Jalal al-Din Weiss]

- Taqsim Rast Nay [composition Abd al-salam safar]

- Layali Rast [composition Hamza Shakkur]

- Ibtihal Bayyati [composition Hamza Shakkur]

[5] Chanting (Tartil) Of The Qur’an

Chapter of the family of Imran, |||, 33 A 37

Bayyati mode

During the medieval heyday of Islamic hegemony, Damascus held one of the great music schools (Cordoba being the other). Its Sufi brotherhoods have since preserved a tradition that incorporated Byzantine and Armenian Christian elements. Shakkur is one of the great Sufi vocalists. He performs two types of sacred suite that include instrumental sections for nay flute, qanun dulcimer and frame-drum.

 ~ John Storm Roberts, Original Music, All Music Guide

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Saint Ephrem Church Choir - Syrian Orthodox Church: Antioch Liturgy

Album : Saint Ephrem Church Choir

 Performer: Antioch Liturgy: Syrian Orthodox Church

 Release date : 1992

 Label :  AUVIDIS

 Number of discs : 1

 Genre : Religious

 Total time : 00:47:29

Tracklist:

TRADITION OF MARDIN, TAGRIT, URFA

1. Sanctus – Anaphora 4:36

2. Qolo - "At the outer door " 6:24

3. Takhshefto - " The Days Pass Like a Shadow " 4:50

4. Gnizo - "Glory to the Magnanimous One " 6:12

TRADITIONS OF TUR'ABDIN

5. Breviary (Adoration of the Cross and "Our Father") 9:34

6. Communion Chant: "He Whom the Jeraphim Fear to Behold" 4:59

7. Takhshefto - "Like the Merchants " 4:46

8. Madrosh - "Describe Thy Beauty " 5:38

This ancient Eastern Church had spread throughout the Near East (Lebanon, Turkey, etc.). The language used is Syriac, a survivor of Aramaic. From Aleppo, Damascus and a Syrian village, these monodic and ornate liturgical songs are performed by choirs, some of then female voices.

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Petros Tabouris - Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity

Album : Sacred Music of Greek Antiquity

Performer(s) : Petros Tabouris & Aulites

Release date : 1995

Label: IFM Records

Number of discs : 2

Genre : Religious

Total time : CD1: 00:47:05

                    CD2: 00:48:57

Tracklist:

CD-1

Anon.

1. Second Delphic Hymn to Apollo {P}
   Anon.
2. Hymn to Zeus {Q}
   Anon.
3. « Maktrismos » Dance {Q}
   Mesomedes of Crete
4. Hymn to the Muse {P}
   Anon.
5. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo (instr.) {P}
   Sappho
6. To Aphrodite {Q}
   Anon.
7. « Agios o Theos » Chanted around the altar
   Anon.
8. « Gigras » Dance {Q}
   Mesomedes of Crete
9. Hymn to Nemesis (P)
   Anon.
10. Instrumental fragment from Contrapollinopolis (P)
    Anon.
11. « Aulos » (instr.) {Q}
    Anon.
12. « Savarios » Dance {Q}
    Anon.
13. « Barbitos » (instr.) {Q}
    Anon.
14. To Demon. Orphic hymn {Q}
    Pindar
15. « Dithyramvos » {Q}
    Anon.
16. « Ithyphallic » melody {Q}
    Anon.
17. « Ioniki » Dance {Q}
    Aristophanes
18. Fragment from comedy "Birds" {Q}

CD-2

Sophocles

19. Antigone {Q}
    Anon.
20. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo {P}
    Anon.
21. « Korivantes » (instr.) {Q}
    Mesomedes of Crete
22. Hymn to the Muse
    Anon.
23. « Telesias » Dance {Q}
    Euripides
24. Stasimon « from Orestes » {P}
    Anon.
25. « Thronismos » Dance{Q}
    Pindar
26. The Elysium in Hades {Q}
    Mesomedes of Crete
27. Hymn to the Sun {P}
    Anon.
28. Tecmessas's lament - Fragment from the tragedy "Aias" {P} 

Performers:
Aulites [Giannis Basiliou (aulos), Giannis Dobridis (askaulos - bagpipe), Stavros Kouskouridas (souravli), Françoise Bucquet (lyre, barbitos), Stavros Beris (kithara), Nestoras Drougas (krotala, tympanon, rhoptron), Petros Tabouris (pandora, trigonon, piktis)]

Singers: Tasos Aloupis, Kostis Georgalis, Nikos Konstantinopoulos, Giorgos Kostantzos, Stavros Beris, Panourias, Nikos Psarianos

Readers: K. Konstantopoulos, Elini Felipa, Stavroula Seitanidou
with participation of "Early Music Workshop".

The parts of the collection which are not musical fragments dating from antiquity, are reconstructions of ancient melodies, based on the prosody of the verse and the suitable harmony.

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