Huelgas Ensemble / GALLUS. Opus Musicum, M. Sancta Maria + DISCOGRAPHY 1997

Though born a Slovene, Jacobus Gallus centered his entire work around Vienna, Prague and the diocesan city of Olomouc (Olmütz). The surprising mobility of Gallus's truly Renaissance career shows him as a model of the sixteenth-century composer. Gallus was active at both abbey and court, though at times for only a brief period before moving on: Melk, Brno (Brünn), Wroclaw (Breslau), Legnica (Liegflitz), Görlitz, Zwettl, and elsewhere. His cosmopolitan spirit is reflected, moreover, in the numerous variations of his name: Handl, Petelin, Haehn, Handelius, Coq, Kohoutek.

The style in which Gallus composed cannot be described in a few words. The fascination of his work derives from the harmonious association of different streams: on the one hand, a tendency which, despite the variety of stylistic means used, is basically conservative (the Northern influence) and, on the other, ideas which - sparse at times, but richly applied at others - range from the liberal to the progressive.

OPUS MUSICUM
IN ADVENTU DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI
01 - Venite ascendamus, à 8 [3:12]
02 - Obsecro Domine, à 4 [2:07]
DE NATIVITATE CIRCUMCISIONE ET EPIPHANIA DOMINI
03 - Tribus miraculis, à 12 [2:49]
04 - Mirabile misterium, à 5 [3:33]
05 - Ab oriente venerunt magi, à 4 [2:14]
AD DOMINICAE SEPTUAGESIMAE PER QUADRAGESIMAM DE POENITENTIA
06 - Pater Noster, à 8 [3:31]
07 - Lamentatur Jacob, à 6 [6:34]
08 - Eripe me, à 5 [4:32]
09 - Versa est in luctum cithara mea, à 5 [3:38]
DE RESURRECTIONE ET ASCENSIONE DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI
10 - Quo mihi crude dolor, à 8 [3:44]
DE SANCTA TRINITATE ET DECORPORE CHRISTI
11 - O Beata Trinitas, à 8 [2:30]
IN DEDICATIONE TEMPLI ET A DOMENICA POST PENTECOSTEM USQUE AD ADVENTU DOMINI
12 - Planxit David, à 8 [4:20]
13 - Jesu dulcis memoria, à 6 [3:26]
14 - Domine Deus exaudi orationem, à 16 [4:42]

MISSA SUPER 'SANCTA MARIA', à 6
15 - 1. Kyrie [3:36]
16 - 2. Gloria [4:25]
17 - 3. Credo [8:17]
18 - 4. Sanctus [4:23]
19 - 5. Agnus Dei [2:17]

HUELGAS ENSEMBLE
Paul van Nevel

Lize van Jaarsveld, Katelijne Van Laethem, Marie-Claude Vallin - Superius
Claudio Cavina, Steve Dugardin - Altus
Marius van Altena, Harry van Berne, Stéphane van Dyck, Eric Mentzel,Otto Rastbichler - Tenor
Willem Ceuleers, Lieven Deroo, Harry Van der Kamp - Bassus

Bart Coen, recorders (alto G, basset F, bass C)
Peter de Clercq, recorders (alto G, bass C, bass B-flat), basset flute F
Baldrick Deerenberg, recorders (basset F, basset G , bass C)
Wim Becu, sackbuts (alto, tenor)
Simen Van Mechelen, alto sackbut
Harry Ries, sackbuts (alto, tenor)
Michèle Van den Broucque, bass dulcian
René Van Laken, tenor dulcian
Jean Tubéry, cornett, mute cornett

rapidshare links - GALLUS

rapidshare links - DISCOGRAPHY up to 1997
(some items missing)

1978 - Netherland Renaissance. Sacred Music / de Monte, Lassus, White
1980 - Johannes CICONIA. Œuvre intégrale
1981 - La Favola di Orfeo
1985 - Musica Aldersoetste Konst - Polyphonic songs from the Low Countries
1988 - O Cieco Mondo - The Italian Lauda c. 1400-1700
1988 - Cypriano de RORE - Passio domini nostri Iesu Christi secundum Iohannem
1989 - Cypriot Advent Antiphons, c. 1390
1989 - La Dissection d'un Homme armé. Six Masses after a Burgundian Song
1990 - In Morte di Madonna Laura. Madrigal cycle after texts of Petrarca
1990 - Antoine BRUMEL. Missa "Et ecce terrae motus" - Sequentia "Dies irae"
1990 - Mateo FLECHA el Viejo. Las Ensaladas - Burlesque of the Spanish Renaissance
1991 - PRAETORIUS. Magnificat et al.
1991 - Italia Mia. Musical Imagination of the Renaissance
1991 - Febus Avant! Music at the Court of Gaston Febus (1331-1391)
1992 - João Lourenço REBELO. Vesper Psalms & Lamentations
1992 - Nicolas GOMBERT. Music from the Court of Charles V
1992 - Codex Las Huelgas. Music from 13th century Spain
1993 - Orlando di LASSO. Lagrime di San Pietro
1993 - Music from the Court of King Janus at Nicosia (1374-1432)
1994 - Jacobus GALLUS. Opus Musicum · Missa super Sancta Maria
1994 - Canções, Vilancicos e Motetes Portugueses. Séculos XVI - XVII
1994 - Utopia Triumphans. The Great Polyphony of the Renaissance
1995 - Matthaeus PIPELARE. Missa "L'homme armé" · Chansons · Motets
1995 - Claude LE JEUNE. Le Printans
1995 - Tears of Lisbon. Music of Portugal From the Renaissance Through Today's Fado - LIVE
1996 - Pierre de MANCHICOURT. Missa Veni Sancte Spiritus · Motets · Chansons
1996 - PERUSIO. Virelais, Ballades, Caccia (Matteo da Perugia)
1997 - Lamentations de la Renaissance

Two 2005 Concerts:
Contrappunte alla mente
Pearls of the Renaissance - Text, colour and chromatiscism in the 16th century