A Lammas Ladymass: 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony

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A Lammas Ladymass: 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony
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Artist: Anonymous 4
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-09-01
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
  1. Que est ista, antiphon
  2. O quam glorifica, hymn
  3. Ave tuos benedic, conductus
  4. In Odore, Gracia Viam Continencie, motet
  5. Salve mater salvatoris, conductus
  6. Salve sancta parens, introit
  7. Orbis Factor, kyrie
  8. Gloria
  9. Benedicta et venerabilis, gradual
  10. Ave glorioso mater, conductus
  11. Virga ferax aaron, alleluia
  12. O maria stella maris, sequence
  13. O ceteris preamabilis, sequence
  14. O quam glorifica/O quam beata domina/O quam felix femina, motet
  15. Recordare virgo mater/Mater patris et filia
  16. Sanctus
  17. Agnus dei
  18. Alma dei genitrix, communion
  19. Salve mater salvatoris, conductus
  20. Paradisi porta, conductus
  21. Ite missa est
  22. Pangat melos grex devotus, Sequence

Music reviews of A Lammas Ladymass: 13th and 14th Century English Chant and Polyphony

Music Review: English Ladymass at its best
Rating: 5 Stars

The music on this disc comes from the tradition of special masses done in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a very popular figure in medieval Europe - in some languages, more than half the music that survives from this period was written dedicated to her. The Ladymass was often performed weekly, and in larger communities and cathedrals, daily, in the Lady Chapels.

The Anonymous 4 have arranged this disc around a mass sequence, using a Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus dei. They have also incorporated other pieces - motets, an Alleluia setting, and other pieces such as the conductus (several voices declaiming the same text together), are incorporated to fill out the programme. These would not have been performed in this kind of sequence and number in a proper worship service, but most would have been appropriate in worship settings during a Ladymass.

For this disc, these pieces of polyphony and chant come from the English tradition. Thus, many things that on the continent might have been in polyphonic setting, the Anonymous 4 have simplified and set in conductus style, which was often the case in English churches.

The music here is beautiful, in full flower of the spirit of the composition, the subject, and the power of the Anonymous 4 to bring such music to life.


-- 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. The cover art comes from 'Coronation of the Virgin' from a Book of Hours, from France and Belgium, circa 1480. There are other details from this book and from other manuscripts found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, throughout this booklet.

-- 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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