On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols & Motets
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Import
CD Release Date: 1993-09-01
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi France.
Soundtracks:
- Antiphon: Hodie Christus natus est
- Motet: O nobilis nativitas / O mira dei / O decus virgineum / Apparuit
- Antiphon: Lux de luce
- Carol: Alleluya: A nywe werke
- Hymn: Verbum supernum prodiens
- Motet: Balaam de quo vaticinans
- Carol: Ave Maria
- Song: Gabriel, fram heven-king
- Carol: Lullay: I saw a swete semly syght
- Motet: Prollis eterne genitor / Psallat mater gracie
- Hymn: Vox clara, ecce, intonat
- Rondellus: De supernis sedibus
- Antiphon: Omnes de Saba
- Motet: Puellare gremium / Purissima mater
- Carol: Lullay, lullay: Ais I lay on Yoolis night
- Responsory: Tria sunt munera
- Motet: Orto sole serene / Origo viri / Virga Iesse
- Song: Peperit virgo
- Carol: Ecce quod natura
- Hymn: A solis ortus cardine
- Carol: Ther is no rose of swych vertu
- Antiphon: Videntes stellam
- Carol: Nowell: Owt of your slepe aryse
Music reviews of On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols & Motets
Music Review: A little holy night's music
Rating: 5 Stars
'On Yoolis Night' is a collection of motets, carols, hymns, antiphons and a few other pieces in honour of the nativity - this is a medieval Christmas album. During the Middle Ages, when Europe was swept with adoration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, many of the songs around Christmas would be as much around her character as with Jesus. These works deal with the various legends, biblical and extra-canonical, as well as the traditional stories of Christmastide, primarily taken from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. However, the earliest piece dates from the fifth century (A solis ortus cardine) to the polyphony of the fifteenth century, which means that this disc in fact contains a thousand years of history. Also included are a few anticipatory pieces from Advent, such as the Vox clara chant (the voice of him crying in the wilderness...).
These are beautiful pieces, stunning in performance and quite remarkable - compared to modern Christmas carols, these are pieces with depth and richness, certainly devoid of much of the mercantile and later accretions that have overlaid holiday seasons in the Western world.
This is definitely a holiday album with a difference.
-- Liner Notes --
This text accompaniment to this disc is very full, so much so that the booklet is not contained within the jewel case, but rather within a slipcover in which both the CD/jewel case and the booklet reside. The liner notes include a description of the work, a brief piece about the quartet, and the lyrics of the songs both in original language and in translation - all repeated in English, German, and French sections.
-- Anonymous 4 --
Contrary to the implication of their name, the Anonymous 4 are not anonymous. This is a vocal quartet made up of Ruth Cunningham, Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, and Johanna Rose at the time of this recording (Ruth Cunningham will later go on to a solo career early, and another member will join - Jacqueline Horner). They came together as a formal group in 1986, and have been ensemble-in-residence at St. Michael's Church in New York City, giving concert series in New York as well as throughout North America. They have been featured a number of times on national media in North America as well as Germany. They then went on to yet more success, eventually performing more that 1000 concerts worldwide.
Their specialty is working with chant, monophonic and polyphonic music, and working with medieval texts. According to one source, 'The group takes its name from an anonymous music theorist of the late 13th century, Anonymous IV, who is the principal source on the two famous composers of the Notre Dame school, Léonin and Pérotin.'
The group ended a touring career of nearly two decades in 2004.
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