One hour of browsing through early music, with an accent on Masses.
In memoriam Notre-Dame de Paris (15-4-2019).
On 15 April 2019, the beautiful cathedral the Notre-Dame was largely burnt down during renovations. The damage was enormous: 70 per cent of its art treasures has been lost. A small miracle is that the northern rose window has been spared, and also three important relics and the large and famous organ with almost 8,000 pipes.
In our memorial programme we’ll go back to the begin period of the Notre-Dame in the 12th and 13th century. We’ll also broadcast an organ work played on the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Notre-Dame.
Leoninus (approx. 1150-approx. 1201) of Perotinus (born around 1200)
1. Viderunt omnes, organum duplum
Perotinus (born around 1200)
2. Dum Sigillum summi Patris, Conduit á deux voix
3. Sancte Germane, organum triplum
Ensemble Gilles Binchois conducted by Dominique Vellard
(CD Ecole de Notre-Dame de Paris, Harmonic Records H/CD 9349, 1993)
César Franck (1822-1890)
4. Cantabile in B major
Pierre Cochereau, large organ of the Notre-Dame
(CD César Franck – Organ Works, Saga Classics EC 3374, 1994)
Guillaume de Machaut (approx. 1300-1377)
5. Messe de Nostre Dame
– Kyrie
– Gloria
– Credo
– Sanctus
– Agnus Dei
– Ite Missa est
The Orlando Consort with the cooperation of Robert Macdonald, bass
(CD Scattered Rhymes – Orlando Consort, Harmonia Mundi HMU 807469, 2008)