"Secret Voices". Codex Las Huelgas - 13th Century polyphony & sacred latin chant
Anonymous 4
0h58
Digital
HMU807510
Apple Music
The women of Anonymous 4 revisit their favorite era with repertoire from the Codex Las Huelgas. Spanning the entire 13th century – from virtuosic motets and conductus to heartfelt laments, plainchants and sacred songs – this important manuscript was compiled for a convent of aristocratic Castilian women who (in spite of a rule forbidding Cistercian nuns from singing polyphony) sang the most beautiful and demanding music from all across Gothic-era Europe.
ANONYMOUS · Sequence: Virgines egregie (2'58) · Conductus: Ave maris stella (3'10) · Motet: Claustrum pudicicie / Virgo viget / FLOS FILIUS (2'18) · Discant: Fa fa mi / Ut re mi (1'23) · Conductus-Motet: O Maria virgo / O Maria maris stella / [IN VERITATE] (3'17) · Benedicamus domino: cum cantico (1'29) · Motet: Salve porta / Salve salus / Salve sancta parens (0'56) · Kirie: Rex virginum amator (4'19) · Gloria: Spiritus et alme (5'30) · Sequence: Verbum bonum et suave (2'46) · Motet: Salve virgo regia / Ave gloriosa mater / [DOMINO] (2'59) · Sanctus & Benedictus (1'39) · Motet: Gaude virgo nobilis / Verbum caro factum / ET VERITATE (2'42) · Agnus dei: Gloriosa spes reorum (3'27) · Planctus: O monialis conscio (3'06) · Benedicamus domino: Belial vocatur (1'57) · Sequence: In virgulto gracie (3'02) · Motet: Ave regina celorum / Alma redemptoris mater / [ALMA] (1'50) · Benedicamus domino à 3 (rondellus) (1'32) · Song: Si vocatus ad nupcias (1'26) · Conductus: Mater patris et filia (4'22) · Benedicamus domino à 2 (0'42) · Song: Omnium in te christe (1'35)
