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Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris | Hyperion - Helios CDH55328

Magister Leoninus: Sacred Music from 12th-century Paris

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Label: Hyperion - Helios

Cat No: CDH55328

Barcode: 0034571153285

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 26th October 2009

Contents

Works

Leonin
Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos

Leonin
Alleluya. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos

Leonin
Alleluya. Spiritus Sanctus procedens

Leonin
Alleluya. Paraclitus Spiritus Sanctus

Leonin
Priusquam te formarem

Leonin
Alleluya. Inter natos mulierum

Leonin
Viderunt omnes fines terre

Leonin
Alleluya. Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis

Leonin
Alleluya. Pascha nostrum immolatus est

Artists

Red Byrd
Capella Amsterdam

Works

Leonin
Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos

Leonin
Alleluya. Dulce lignum, dulces clavos

Leonin
Alleluya. Spiritus Sanctus procedens

Leonin
Alleluya. Paraclitus Spiritus Sanctus

Leonin
Priusquam te formarem

Leonin
Alleluya. Inter natos mulierum

Leonin
Viderunt omnes fines terre

Leonin
Alleluya. Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis

Leonin
Alleluya. Pascha nostrum immolatus est

Artists

Red Byrd
Capella Amsterdam

About

Little is known about Léonin beyond the fact that he seems to have had a bent for composing erotic poetry. The somewhat unhelpfully named ‘Anonymous IV’, a monk from Bury St Edmunds, tells us of two ‘masters’ - Leoninus and Perotinus - who dominated the twelfth-century musical world. Both were reputedly based at Notre Dame in Paris, and Leoninus was responsible for the Magnus liber organi, the ‘Big Book of organum’ (an organum being a polyphonic setting of plainchant), which is widely regarded as the single greatest achievement in the development of early polyphony.

For the technically minded, this is music of great complexity, involving interwoven usage of such styles as organum per se, duplum, clausula, and discantus (terms which even medieval theorists took great pleasure in dissecting in an attempt to define their function).

For the rest of us, this is music of fascinating beauty: a combination of the static tranquillity of the plainchant and the florid ornamentation of the ‘composed’ elements, which have something of the feel of nineteenth-century coloratura six hundred years before its time.

Red Byrd:
- John Potter (tenor)
- Richard Wistreich (bass)

Sung with beguiling beauty. These readings renew our sense of wonder at western music’s most fundamental innovation - the sound of two voices simultaneously singing different lines that not only fit with, but also enhance, each other’ - The Sunday Times

A fine contribution to the repertoire on disc of twelfth-century polyphony. A composite sound of great beauty’ - Gramophone

Marvellously atmospheric. A rare and highly rewarding disc. Brilliant performances of neglected treasures’ - Classic CD

Absolutely stunning. Lost music re-born’ - BBC Music Magazine

Diapason d'Or, France · Diapason d'Or de l'Annee · BBC Music Magaine Best of the Year

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