La Reverdie and Roberto Spremulli - Historia Sancti Eadmundi: De la liturgie dramatique au drame liturgique (1996)
BAND/ARTIST: La Reverdie, Roberto Spremulli
- Title: Historia Sancti Eadmundi: De la liturgie dramatique au drame liturgique
- Year Of Release: 1996
- Label: Arcana
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
- Total Time: 01:02:32
- Total Size: 320 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Vita: Classicum
02. Vita: Ave Rex gentis Anglorum / Domine labia mea aperies
03. Vita: Exulta sancta ecclesia
04. Vita: Stans a longe
05. Vita: Sancte indolis puer / Cuius infanciam
06. Vita: Egregium decus
07. Vita: Lectio
08. Vita: Legem dedit rex crudelis
09. Vita: Lectio 2
10. Vita: Miles Christi Eadmundus / Ignis & ferrum / Gloria
11. Vita: Ait autem Eadmundus
12. Passio: Tubam bellicosam
13. Passio: Vinctus ferro
14. Passio: Quo amplior esse
15. Passio: Crescit ad penam Sanctus / Rivus sanguinis
16. Passio: Martyri adhuc palpitanti / Capud sanctitate plenum
17. Passio: Misso spiculatore
18. Passio: Lectio
19. Passio: Fistula
20. Passio: Resectum ergo / Exaudifit Dominus / Heu pastor
21. Miracula: Capud martyris verba edidit / Condoluit pater
22. Miracula: Peregrinacio
23. Miracula: Admirabilis fuit / Ex iocunditate
24. Miracula: Preciosum martyris corpus / Tantum in collo
25. Miracula: Lyra
26. Miracula: Quidam magne potencie vir Lefstanus
27. Miracula: Reserato ergo locello
28. Miracula: Gloriosus Dei adleta Eadmundus
29. Miracula: O sanctissimi patris Eadmundi
30. Miracula: Lectio / Amen
Historia Sancti Eadmundi, an account of the martyrdom of a ninth century Saxon king who became the first widely prominent English saint, was written and elaborated upon from the tenth through the twelfth centuries. The subtitle of this CD, "From Dramatic Liturgy to Liturgical Drama," is based on the proposition of the Italian ensemble La Reverdie that by the twelfth century it was not uncommon for narratives like this one to be performed dramatically with music, and they cite as evidence various contemporaneous accounts either praising or deploring the practice. While the "restoration" of this particular Historia does not claim to reconstitute an actual medieval performance, it does attempt to faithfully re-create what a liturgical music drama devoted to St. Eadmund might have sounded like. Given the thoroughness of the scrupulously documented research, and the quality of the resulting performances, this is a CD that should be intriguing for any devotee of early music looking for recordings that are both academically responsible and musically lively and engaging. The group of women's voices supplemented by a broadly colorful assortment of period instruments brings vibrant energy and imaginative realizations to the ancient material. The performance of this Historia, which originally might have lasted a full day, is shortened to fit on one CD, and consists of antiphons, sequences, responsorial, and readings based on the text. The variety of presentations include vocal solos and unison choruses, sometimes a cappella and sometimes underscored by drones, with a variety of imaginative but appropriate accompaniments, as well as instrumental interludes. Among the most astonishing tracks are the readings, often dramatically accompanied by percussion, spoken by a soloist, or by a chorus in a kind of semi-pitched homophonic Sprechstimme, a tremendously effective device. The sound is clear and clean, and nicely atmospheric.
01. Vita: Classicum
02. Vita: Ave Rex gentis Anglorum / Domine labia mea aperies
03. Vita: Exulta sancta ecclesia
04. Vita: Stans a longe
05. Vita: Sancte indolis puer / Cuius infanciam
06. Vita: Egregium decus
07. Vita: Lectio
08. Vita: Legem dedit rex crudelis
09. Vita: Lectio 2
10. Vita: Miles Christi Eadmundus / Ignis & ferrum / Gloria
11. Vita: Ait autem Eadmundus
12. Passio: Tubam bellicosam
13. Passio: Vinctus ferro
14. Passio: Quo amplior esse
15. Passio: Crescit ad penam Sanctus / Rivus sanguinis
16. Passio: Martyri adhuc palpitanti / Capud sanctitate plenum
17. Passio: Misso spiculatore
18. Passio: Lectio
19. Passio: Fistula
20. Passio: Resectum ergo / Exaudifit Dominus / Heu pastor
21. Miracula: Capud martyris verba edidit / Condoluit pater
22. Miracula: Peregrinacio
23. Miracula: Admirabilis fuit / Ex iocunditate
24. Miracula: Preciosum martyris corpus / Tantum in collo
25. Miracula: Lyra
26. Miracula: Quidam magne potencie vir Lefstanus
27. Miracula: Reserato ergo locello
28. Miracula: Gloriosus Dei adleta Eadmundus
29. Miracula: O sanctissimi patris Eadmundi
30. Miracula: Lectio / Amen
Historia Sancti Eadmundi, an account of the martyrdom of a ninth century Saxon king who became the first widely prominent English saint, was written and elaborated upon from the tenth through the twelfth centuries. The subtitle of this CD, "From Dramatic Liturgy to Liturgical Drama," is based on the proposition of the Italian ensemble La Reverdie that by the twelfth century it was not uncommon for narratives like this one to be performed dramatically with music, and they cite as evidence various contemporaneous accounts either praising or deploring the practice. While the "restoration" of this particular Historia does not claim to reconstitute an actual medieval performance, it does attempt to faithfully re-create what a liturgical music drama devoted to St. Eadmund might have sounded like. Given the thoroughness of the scrupulously documented research, and the quality of the resulting performances, this is a CD that should be intriguing for any devotee of early music looking for recordings that are both academically responsible and musically lively and engaging. The group of women's voices supplemented by a broadly colorful assortment of period instruments brings vibrant energy and imaginative realizations to the ancient material. The performance of this Historia, which originally might have lasted a full day, is shortened to fit on one CD, and consists of antiphons, sequences, responsorial, and readings based on the text. The variety of presentations include vocal solos and unison choruses, sometimes a cappella and sometimes underscored by drones, with a variety of imaginative but appropriate accompaniments, as well as instrumental interludes. Among the most astonishing tracks are the readings, often dramatically accompanied by percussion, spoken by a soloist, or by a chorus in a kind of semi-pitched homophonic Sprechstimme, a tremendously effective device. The sound is clear and clean, and nicely atmospheric.
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