Program: #08-50 Air Date: Dec 01, 2008
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This collection of late-Medieval popular Scandinavian music was first collected in 1582--the Oslo Pro Musica Antiqua (and, in one of their first recordings, the Trio Medieval) give us a wonderful rendering of these once popular pieces--many in theme with the Christmas season.
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NOTE: This collection of late-Medieval popular Scandinavian music was first collected in 1582--the Oslo Pro Musica Antiqua (and, in one of their first recordings, the Trio Medieval) perform material from this collection on a disc from Simax in Norway--CD number PSC 1203. For more information, you may explore www.simax.no
Cantiones de Nativitate Domini et Salvatoris Nostri Iesu Christi (Songs for the birth of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ)
--Parvulus nobis nascitur ("A little boy is born unto us")
--Dies est laetitiae ("This day is full of joy")
--Omnis mundus iucundetur ("Let all the world rejoice")
De Fragilitate et Miseris Humanae Conditionis ("The frailty and misery of this mortal state")
--Scribere proposui ("I have chosen to write of contempt for all worldly things")
--Insignis est figura ("Remarkable is the shape")
--Vanitatum vanitas ("Vanity of vanities")
--Mirum si laeteris ("How can you rejoice, when death concludes and misleads")
De Tempore Vernalis Cantiones ("Songs for springtime")
--In vernali tempore ("In the springtime in a merry place")
--Tempus adest floridum ("The season of flowers has arrived")
De Vita Scholastica (Scholastic life")
--Sum in aliena provincia ("I am in a foreign land plagued by misfortune")
--In stadio labores ("Everyone races in the arena of strife")
--O Scholares, voce pares ("O students, with your clear voices")
Cantiones de Nativitate Domini et Salvatoris Nostri Iesu Christi (Songs for the birth of our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ)
--Angelus emittitur ("An angel is sent forth")
--Ecce novum gaudium ("Behold this new joy")
--Resonet in laudibus ("Let the song of praise resound")
--Verbum caro factum est ("The Word is made flesh")
Fra en klosterbok ("From a monastic manuscript")
--Mith hierthae brendher ("My heart is aflame")
CD Info
CD number PSC 1203
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