This hour features a new, special CD with early music. On the album ‘Jean Hanelle – Cypriot Vespers’ are “O”-antiphones for Advent by 14th-century composer Jean Hanelle. Flemish group Graindelavoix under the direction of Björn Schmelzer already played this programme during the Utrecht Early Music Festival 2016.
Jean Hanelle (c. 1380 – c. 1436)
1. Arsala’llah (Maronite tradition)
2. O Clavis David (plainchant)
3. O Clavis David aurea / Quis igitur aperiet (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
4. I parthenos simeron (Greek-Byzantine tradition)
5. O Oriens (plainchant)
6. Lucis eterne splendor / Veni splendor mirabilis (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
7. O Rex gentium (plainchant)
8. O Rex virtutum gloria / Quis possit digne exprimere (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
9. Alyawma youlado mina lbatoul (Arabo-Byzantine tradition)
10. O Emanuel (plainchant)
11. O Emanuel rex noster / Magne virtutum conditor (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
12. O Virgo virginum (plainchant)
13. O sacra Virgo virginum / Tu nati nata suscipe (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
14. Simeron ghennate ek Parthenou (Greek-Byzantine tradition)
15. Hodie Christus natus est (plainchant)
16. Hodie puer nascitur / Homo mortalis firmiter (Jean Hanelle, Ms Torino J.II.9)
Graindelavoix under the direction of Björn Schmelzer: Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Jean-Christophe Brizard, Bart Meynckens, Tomàs Maxé, vocals
(CD Jean Hanelle – Cypriot Vespers, Glossa GCD P32112, 2016)
