An educational programme featuring early music. Music for the medieval holy Nicolaas.
On 6 December, it’s the saint’s day of Nicolaas. Nowadays, we celebrate this holy day the evening before, at Sinterklaas Eve, when St. Nicolaas brings gifts for the children.
However, in Documento today, we will go back tho the Middle Ages, when St. Nicolaas wasn’t yet a children’s friend, but a real saint. Godrick van Finchale (ca 1200)
1. Sainte Nicolaes
Anonymous 4
(Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907232, 1999)
Anonymous
2. Exultemus et letemur
3. Cantu miro, summa laude
Anonymous 4
(Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907232, 1999)
4. Responsorium Ex eius tumba (organum)
La Reverdie, I Cantori Gregoriani
(Arcana A 72, 1998)
Anonymous
5. Nicolai presulis
6. Fulget Nicolaus
Anonymous 4
(Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907232, 1999)
Anoniem
7. Les trois clercs: l’arrivée
8. Les trois clercs: les vieux
9. Les trois clercs: la mort des clercs
10. Les trois clercs: l’arrivée de St Nicolas
11. Les trois clercs: la prière de St Nicolas
Venance Fortunat olv. Anne-Marie Deschamps
(Monthabor, 1991, 2014)
Anonymous
12. Antifoon Auro virginum incestus
La Reverdie, I Cantori Gregoriani
(Arcana A 72, 1998)
Anonymous
13. Salve cleri speculum
Anonymous 4
(Harmonia Mundi, HMU 907232, 1999)
Johannes Ciconia (1370 – 1412)
14. O virum omnimoda
Diabolus in Musica led by Antoine Guerber
(Ricercar RIC 316, 2011)
Guillaume Dufay (1397 – 1474)
15. O gemma, lux en speculum
Cantica Symphonia led by Giuseppe Maletto
(Glossa GCD P31904, 2008)
Giovanni Bononcini (1670 – 1747)
16. Uit San Nicola di Bari:
– Recitativo: Ma qui giunge Nicola
– Aria: Il diletto è una sirena
– Recitativo: Entro a dotto liceo
– Aria: Anche il cielo
– Recitativo: Al misero vivente
Lavinia Bertotti, soprano. Gabriella Martellacci, alt. Les Muffatti led by Peter van Heygen
(Ramee RAM 0806, 2008)
Additionally:
Jakub Reys (ca 1550 – ca 1605)
17. Branle de St. Nicolas
Michael Gondko
(DUX 0408, 2013)
Image: St. Nicolaas gives three girls a dowry (Nicolaas Neri).
