Huelgas Ensemble: EML 5 February

[doversoul1]

Elin Manahan Thomas presents a sequence of music for Advent from a concert given last year by the Huelgas Ensemble at St Paul's Church, Antwerp. They perform music from the manuscript J.11.9, the only source of medieval Cypriot music in existence.

Ordo sanctorum militum, à 1
Sanctus in eternis
O Sapientia (triplum) / Nos demoramur (duplum)
O Adonay (triplum) / Pictor eterne (duplum)
O Radix Yesse (triplum) / Cunti fundent (duplum)
O clavis David (triplum) / Quis igitur (duplum)
O lucis eterne (triplum) / Veni splendor (duplum)
O rex virtutum (triplum) / Quis possit (duplum)
O Emanuel (triplum) / Magne virtutum (duplum)
O sacra virgo (triplum) / Tu nati nata (duplum)
Hodie puer (triplum) / Homo mortalis (duplum)
The Huelgas Ensemble
Paul Van Nevel (director).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ch0hw

[DracoM]

Thx for heads-up.

[Richard Tarleton]

I'll be listening to this ds. Interesting provenance for "Huelgas" - normal meaning of "huelga" is a strike (in the Southern Region sense), here it means fallow land . And Elin M-T too

[ardcarp]

...and there's this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Huelgas_Codex

...which appears at the bottom of your helpful link.

[DracoM]

A fine recital. Animated, expertly sung. Real refrehsment.

[Richard Tarleton]

Misread EML - thought it was EMS.....so disappointed yesterday pm, and have yet to listen......

[DracoM]

Treat in store.

[ardcarp]

Yes. This was proper early music....and I just love those Burgundian cadences.