Notes
Title from container.
Coeurs desolez now often attrib. to Appenzeller. O rosa bella now generally attrib. to Bedyngham.
Ave Maria, originally for 4 voices, performed in n anon. contemporaneous version with viols doubling the 4 voices, & 2 added voices doubled with recorder & organ.
Eds. recorded by Bruno Turner.
Program notes by Turner printed on container; vocal texts with English translations by Turner inserted.
Performers
Purcell Consort of Voices (Eileen Poulter, Felicity Palmer, Grayson Burgess, Ian Partridge, Paul Taylor, Geoffrey Shaw, Christopher Keyte) ; Elizabethan Consort of Viols ; Andrew Davis, organ ; John Sothcott, recorder ; Bernard Thomas, recorder & shawm ; Roger Brenner & Peter Goodwin, sackbuts ; Grayston Burgess, conductor.
Contents
Petite camusette [a 6] ; Coeurs desolez : chanson (played by 4 viols) ; La deploration sur la mort de Johan. Ockeghem ; Vive le roy : fanfare for the King (shawm, 2 sackbuts & organ) ; El grillo ; La Bernadina : tricinia (shawm, sackbuts & organ) ; Basies moy : double & triple canon ; Fortuna desperata (arr. of chanson by Busnois) (2 sackbuts & viol) ; Ave Maria ... Virgo serena / Josquin des Pres
O rosa bella (psuedo ballata) ; Ave maris stella : hymn at Vespers ; Alma redemptoris Mater : antiphon ; Sancta Maria succurre miseris : Magnificat antiphon ; Veni sancta spiritus-Veni creator spiritus : polytextual isorhythmic motet / John Dunstable.