Composer: Petrus Wilhelm de Grudencz, Mikolaj Radomski, Othmar Opilionis, Johannes Holandrinus
Performer: Corina Marti, Michał Gondko, La Morra
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Glossa
Release: 2016
Size: 1.15 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Domine ad adiuvandum me festina
02. Grudencz: Predulcis eurus
03. anon.: Veni, da gaudiorum, Veni
04. Grudencz: Veni vere – Pneuma eucaristiarum – Paraclito tripudia – Dator eya graciarum
05. Mikolaj Radomski: Ballade
06. Holandrinus: Virelai
07. Othmar Opilionis: Rondeau
08. Mikolaj Radomski: Hystorigraphi, aciem
09. Grudencz: Kyrie: Fons bonitatis
10. anon.: Ave mater summi nati
11. anon.: Virginem mire pulchritudinis
12. anon.: Resurgente domino
13. anon.: Ave Mater o Maria [Bologna Biblioteca Universitaria, 2216]
14. anon.: Unde gaudent / Eya, Eya / Nostra iocunda
15. Grudencz: Probleumata enigmatum
16. Johannes Touront: O gloriosa regina mundi
17. anon.: Mit ganczym willin – Der winter der wil weychen
Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz:
18. Plaude euge theotocos
19. Psalteriis et timpanis
20. Promitat eterno
21. Psalmodium exileratum
22. Mikolaj Radomski: Alleluya
23. anon.: Christus … vinctos / Chorus nove / Christus … mala
24. anon.: Ex trinitatis culmine
Recorded: 26-30 January 2016
Recording Venue: Schloss Beuggen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
The release of a new recording from La Morra is always exciting in terms of creative and imaginative artistry and not just within the realms of late medieval and early Renaissance music. With a disc focusing on the 15th-century composer Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz, in a production from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis strand on Glossa, the ensemble is set to repeat its happy knack of alighting upon an area of largely untravelled repertoire and making a fascinating programme from it.
Wilhelmi was what can be called a Central-European composer: born in today’s Poland he was active in German, Bohemian and Silesian territory, a musician from within the Holy Roman Empire, and open to new trends coming from the West and South. Without being a cultural force to rival his near contemporary Guillaume Dufay, Wilhelmi provided music which had a long-lasting appeal for the learned, non-professional musicians in Central-European lands. Corina Marti and Michal Gondko, the Swiss ensemble’s joint artistic directors since its formation back in 2000, add their skills as instrumentalists (keyboard, recorders and lute) to those of their quartet of singers in a survey which also embraces further Latin and secular-texted compositions by Nicolaus de Radom, Johannes Tourout and Othmarus Opilionis de Jawor, further examples of how Central European composers were absorbing ideas coming from the Franco-Flemish tradition, Italy and the Ars Nova from France.