Performer: Gregoriana Pragensis Schola, Corina Marti
Conductor: David Eben
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Supraphon
Release: 2021
Size: 1.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Slyšiž země – Song
02. Kyrie pro defunctis
03. Memento etiam Domine
04. Veni sancte spiritus et in me robur auge Cantio
05. Miretur omnis nacio – Cantio (Instrumental)
06. Degentis vita – Cum vix artidici – (Vera pudicitia) Motet
07. Deus in adiutorium Versus
08. Quia devotis laudibus / Ps. 147 Lauda Ierusalem Antiphona cum psalmo
09. Benedicamus Domino Versus
10. Nunc festum celebremus Cantio
11. Ein schöne liebe Jungfraw Cantio
12. Vsed ďábel babě na plece Song
13. Sanctus scholasticum
14. Ora pro nobis Antiphona
15. Martino divo presuli Cantio
16. Generari voluit – Cantio (Instrumental)
17. Caro mea vere est cibus Graduale
18. Jesus Christus nostra salus Cantio
19. Esto quod expertus sis in trivio Cantio de disciplinis studiorum
20. Apollinis eclipsatur – Zodiacum signis – In omnem terram (Bernard de Cluny) Motet
21. Et factum est postquam in captivitatem Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae
22. Christus Rex pacificus
23. Quid admiramini Cantio
24. Salve sancta parens Introitus
25. Poligena exanimes (Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz) Cantio
26. O regina lux divina Cantio
27. Jour a jour Rondeau
28. Sacerdotes Dei Cantio
29. Asperges me hyssopo Antiphona
30. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Antonio da Cividale)
The music played at Prague university according to mid-15th-century sources, following the Hussite wars and the institution’s renovation. The album provides a wide array of liturgical music, sacred pieces by young clerics, as well as music the university students played for entertainment. It features Gregorian chant, anonymous creations and compositions by Bernard de Cluny, Petrus Wilhelmi de Grudencz and Antonio da Cividale.
Contemporary university students would be hard pressed to imagine life without social networking on their smartphones. In the 15th century, the role of social networking was pursued by communal singing, bringing the students together and being part of their everyday life on a variety of occasions. The foundation charter of the Reček College of Prague university (1438) stipulated for the students the duty to perform music every day within the liturgical services. On the other hand, secular music, including instrumental and dance, was prohibited (especially playing resonant instruments, singing in the vernacular languages and ribald songs), but the students constantly bent the rules.
The liturgy prescribed for each day of the week served as the basis for the repertoire of the present recording, which, however, also affords scope to the secular music that in all likelihood the students used to play during their leisure time beyond the walls of the college. The unique album of Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and their very special guest, the clavisimbalist Corina Marti (La Morra), is being released along with an extensive study providing a comprehensive depiction of the 15th-century university music life. The fruit of the collaboration between musicians and musicologists from across Europe is a book with this recording, an artefact that will become a natural part of the library of every connoisseur and lover of medieval music.