Composer: Johannes Ciconia, Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz
Performer: La Morra
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ramée
Catalogue: RAM2008
Release: 2022
Size: 2.22 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Breve regnum erigitur
02. anon.: Ave Maris Stella
03. anon.: Kyrie
04. Radomski: Gloria
05. anon.: Postaris in presepio / Maria amplioribus
06. anon.: Maria en mitissima
07. anon.: Salve thronus trinitatis
08. Radomski: Sancta Maria succurre / Magnificat
09. Ciconia: Credo
10. Radomski: Balatum
11. anon.: Cracovia civitas
12. Clibano: Sanctus: Gustati necis pocula
13. anon.: Agnus Dei
14. Nicolaus, Gondko: Nitor inclite claredinis
15. anon.: Virginem mire pulchritudinis
16. Grudencz: Presulis eminenciam
17. Teramo: Gloria (Ad ongni vento)
The city of Cracow, until 1596 the political, commercial and cultural capital of Poland, rose to prominence in Central Europe in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries under the rule of the Jagiellon dynasty. Although repertoire both performed and composed in Cracow exists from before to that period, it is the manuscripts from the first half of the fifteenth century that capture an impression of the city’s soundscape in a period when it was reportedly “gripped by the greatest enthusiasm” for music. On the one hand, they reveal an intense involvement with Italian and French art music, and on the other, rare glimpses of local musical production ranging from simple, often archaic-sounding polyphony to more complex works of Mikołaj Radomski, a mysterious Polish composer whose music is not known from other sources. The recorded programme is a musical panorama of a vibrant early fifteenth-century city in the East of Latin Europe which, six centuries later, still enchants with its medieval-renaissance aura.