Choir & Organ (Mar, 2019)
Female vocal and instrumental ensemble VocaMe explores sacred music from the great cathedral-building age in Cathedrals. Their deep mezzo-sopranos allow for effective transpositions of polyphony originally sung by men, including the Messe de Tournai, and a glowing sound quality informs voices that feel very close within spacious, vibrant acoustics. Their programme includes a conductus from Codex Las Huelgas, which also pops up in an entire disc dedicated to that rich manuscript from Ensemble Gilles Binchois: Fons luminis. With a more detached quality, and most elegant and technically impressive singing in radiant recorded sound, the performers offer fascinating and welcome new scholarship concerning the occasional liturgical combination of male and female singers. …
Cathedrals – VocaMe
Messe de Tournai (14th Century)
Ecole de NotreDame (13th Century): Deus pacis (Anonymous); Circa mundi vesperam (Anonymous); Bacule sollemnia (Anonymous); Sol sub nube latuit (Gautier de Chatillon)
Codex Calixtinus (12th Century): Benedicamus; Congaudeant catholici
Codes Las Huelgas (13th Century): Audi pontus
Graduale der Alienor de Bretagne (13th Century): Orbis factor
Traditional (Corsica): Tota pulchra es
Adam de Saint-Victor (1112-1146): O Maria, stella maris
Cividale (14th Century) – Ave gloriosa
Tuorilo von St. Gallen (9th Century): Cuncti potens
Gace Brule / Adam de Saint-Victor: Salve mater salvatoris
VocaMe
20,90€
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