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Rose van Jherico - Song Book of Anna of Cologne

Rose van Jherico - Song Book of Anna of Cologne
ID: RK2604
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Medieval Period

Selections from The Song Book of Anna von Köln

This collection of devotional songs in Latin and the vernacular (indeed, in several medieval dialects) was compiled about 1500 in Cologne, an example of devotio moderna, the late-medieval movement to adopt a lifestyle midway between secular society and the religious orders. The title of the disc, “the rose of Jericho,” refers to a Macaronic song in low German and Latin honoring the Blessed Virgin, who was invariably venerated while her Son was worshipped. A few of these songs have appeared in collections of the LP era. Konrad Ruhland’s group sang “Jure plaudant omnia,” included here. Several other songs recorded in that era are not duplicated here, but this seems to be the first focused collection drawn from this source.

Late-medieval collections of anonymous vocal music of this type have been largely overlooked in music history courses and texts in favor of identifiable composers. Reinhard Strohm, in The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500 (Cambridge, 1993), made a major breakthrough in devoting the entire Part 3 of his four-part book to the subject. The Songbook of Anna of Cologne (D-B 8o 280) has been edited by Salmen and Koepp (Schwann, 1954), so it should be accessible at least to performers and scholars. Even so, Strohm barely mentions the collection in a paragraph devoted to 15th-century compilations of this type, next to the slightly earlier Wienhäuser Liederbuch, which was given a whole disc on a Psallite LP of 1976.

The 16 songs from this source that are recorded here make a delightful program. All are sung by the women’s group of 11 singers and five players, while four instrumental selections from the Glogauer and Locheimer songbooks are inserted at intervals. Some of the songs are sung solo, and some are lightly accompanied on period instruments. The acoustics of the chapel cast a warm glow around the voices. Anonymity is a burden, as evident from the attention devoted to composers (Perotinus) and works (the “Farewell” symphony of Haydn) not so disabled. Anyone who comes across this disc is going to be entranced by the unexpected pleasure that it affords. Give it a chance and you’ll turn back to it again and again. The last time I was so unexpectedly delighted was on hearing “Ninna Nanna” by Montserrat Figueras (26:6). That’s the kind of disc it is.

FANFARE: J. F. Weber


Ars Choralis Coeln - Ensemble for Medieval Music / Ensemble für mittelalterliche Musik / Ensemble de musique médiévale

Cora Schmeiser, Uta Kirsten, Petra Koerdt, Mikari Shibukawa, Pamela Petsch, Inga Schneider, Amanda Simmons, Stefanie Brijoux, Elodie Mourot, Katherine Hill, Karolina Brachmann - Gesang | voice | chant
Lucia Mense - Blockflöte, Glocken, Gesang | recorder, bells, voice | flûte à bec, cloches, chant
Elisabeth Seitz - Hackbrett | dulcimer
Johanna Seitz - Harfe | harp | harpe
Susanne Ansorg - Fidel | fiddle | vielle
Maria Jonas - Leitung | direction; Gesang, Drehleier | voice, hurdy-gurdy | chant, vièle à roue
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Vita St. Elizabeth - Medieval songs

Vita St. Elizabeth - Medieval songs
ID: RK2605
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Vocal Collection

Ioculatores; Ars Choralis Coeln; Amarcord; Jörg Peukert (narr); Sabine Heller (hp)

This deluxe presentation celebrates the eighth centenary of its subject. Here called “St. Elizabeth of Thuringia,” but better known as St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), this daughter of the king and queen of Hungary was betrothed to the future margrave of Thuringia in infancy and brought up at that court. She was 14 when the marriage was celebrated, and they had three children before he went off to the Crusades, dying along the way at Otranto in 1227. Elizabeth, already moved by the ideals of the newly founded Franciscan order, devoted herself as Landgravine to the needs of the poor. As a widow, she left the inhospitable court to live in Marburg, where she established a hospital and labored for the sick until her death at the age of 24. Celebrated for her works on behalf of the poor and sick, she was canonized four years later. Devotion spread from Thuringia as far as Cambrai and her native Hungary. Schola Hungarica recorded two chant Offices for her feast (19:4), one from Cambrai, where her heart had been enshrined, and the other from Warburg, a source also copied in Hungary.

Unlike that collection of Office chants, this program is a wide-ranging group of vocal and instrumental pieces from the period, all related closely to the life of the saint. Three separate ensembles take their turns, in addition to Jörg Peukert, who reads from an early biography of the saint with aural punctuation by a harpist. Besides an antiphon, a responsory, a sequence, and a hymn from the Office, we hear vernacular songs by the monk of Salzburg and Walther von der Vogelweide, an Italian lauda, and instrumental pieces by Ioculatores. On two tracks Ioculatores ensemble joins with one or the other group. The tracks spoken in German run over 20 minutes without printed text. The booklet offers a detailed guide to the program, with notes and summaries of each track in addition to the full texts with translations, and it is lavishly illustrated. Everything has been achieved on the highest level to make this a worthy tribute on the saint’s anniversary. As a gift package, it would be a compliment to the taste of the recipient.

FANFARE: J. F. Weber
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Hildegard von Bingen - Vespers of the Blessed Virgin

Hildegard von Bingen - Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
ID: RK2806
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Medieval PeriodPodkolekce: Choir

Maria Jonas performs both Early and Contemporary Music and has studied and taught historical singing. Ars Choralis Coeln gave its debut concert in 2004 and since then has succeeded in establishing itself at home and abroad.

Gesang: Stefanie Brijoux, Sylvia Dörnemann, Maria Jonas, Uta Kirsten, Petra Koerdt, Elodie Mourot, Pamela Petsch, Cora Schmeiser, Amanda Simmons, Christine Wehler, Ulrike Berner-Heimbach


Block- und Traversflöte: Lucia Mense
Fidel : Susanne Ansorg
Harfe : Amanda Simmons
Glocken: Bettina Strübel, Elodie Mourot
Portativ: Bettina Strübel
Sinfonia: Susanne Ansorg, Bettina Strübel

Leitung: Maria Jonas

Die Texte der Gesänge Hildegards sind Miniaturen ihrer Theologie, sie kreisen um die großen Themen Schöpfung und Menschwerdung und damit auch um Maria als Mutter Christi. Hildegards Marienbild kommt den schlichten und hoheitsvollen Skulpuren der Romanik nahe, die Maria als „sedes sapientiae“, als Thron der Weisheit darstellen: Hier geht es nie um isolierte Marienverehrung, sondern im Mittelpunkt steht Christus als fleischgewordene Weisheit, die seine Mutter der Welt präsentiert.
Die Frauenschola Ars Choralis Coeln und Maria Jonas geben den tiefgründigen Gesängen Hildegards einen überzeitlichen Klang. In der Weite der großen romanischen Basilika des Klosters Eberbach erheben sich ihre sonoren Stimmen anbetungsvoll.
Für ihre 2007 bei Raumklang erschienene CD „Rose van Jhericho - das Liederbuch der Anna von Köln“ (RK 2604) erhielt Ars Choralis Coeln bereits zahlreiche Auzeichnungen, darunter den Diapason 5 und den begehrten Choc du monde de la musique.
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CANTO NOVELLO - Laude From Late-Medieval Italy

CANTO NOVELLO - Laude From Late-Medieval Italy
ID: RK2809
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: Medieval PeriodPodkolekce: Choir

Ars Choralis Coeln is an all-female ensemble with international membership and has succeeded in establishing itself in the medieval music at home and abroad. Oni Wytars was founded in 1983 to explore new ways of interpreting Early Music.


»Canto Novello« - Lieder einer geistigen Erneuerung, einer sozialen und vor allem einer musikalischen: ein Schmelztiegel, ein Konglomerat aus der jahrhundertealten Tradition der Musik der christlichen Kirche und der reichen Poesie des Volkes, individuell, kraftvoll und mitreißend.
Die Ensembles Ars Choralis Coeln und Oni Wytars haben sich eigens für dieses Projekt zusammengefunden, in dem sie ihre unterschiedlichen Spezialisierungen - berückende Klangschönheit und temperamentvolle instrumentale Virtuosität - vereinen können, um ein faszinierend vielschichtiges Klangbild der volksprachlichen geistlichen Musik der oberitalienischen Städte des 14. Jahrhunderts wiedererstehen zu lassen: ganz im Sinne der Compagnie delle Laude.
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