Performer: La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Orchestra: Hesperion XXI
Conductor: Jordi Savall
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alia Vox
Catalogue: AVSA9951
Release: 2022
Size: 1.13 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
anon.: Codex Las Huelgas
01. I. Iocundare plebs fidelis cuius Pater est in celis (Prose CLH 67)
02. II. Audi pontus audi tellus (Conductus CLH 161)
03. III. Eterni numinis (Prose VI de Santa María la Real CLH 55)
04. IV. Kyrie fons bonitatis (Organum CLH 3)
05. V. Gaude Virgo plena Deo (Prose IX de Santa María CLH 76)
06. VI. Alpha bovi et leoni (Motet XXVIII CLH 83)
07. VII. Virgines egregie (Prose XXIII de la Vierge CLH 72)
08. VIII. Cum sint difficilia Salomoni tria (Notre-Dame Conductus mss. Firenze P9)
09. IX. Virgo sidus aureum (Prose VIII de Santa María CLH 57)
10. X. O Maria Virgo Davitica O Maria maris stella (Motet XXI CLH 104)
11. XI. Flavit auster (Prose XL de Santa María CLH 58)
After more than 220 albums, Jordi Savall is still full of surprises and does just that with this exhilarating recording of a master- piece from the Middle Ages. Compiled in 1325 and rediscovered in… 1904, the Codex Las Huelgas is the only manuscript of his time still kept in its original place : a Cistercian monastery on the road to Compostella in northern Spain. It grants us a privileged access to the music written in the 3 centuries prior to its completion. Jordi Savall selected 11 pieces among the 186 included in the collection. His ensembles La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI reveal all the beauties of this fascinating music.