Track Listing

1. Work(s): Domine labia mea aperies / Deus in adjutorium meum (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
2. Psalm 94 'Christus natus est nobis' (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
3. Christe redemptor omnium, hymn (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
4. O primus homo coruit, versus (from Matines de No�l)
5. Jube Domine ... Primo tempore (Isaiah 9: 1-6), reading (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
6. Hodie nobis c�lorum, responsory (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
7. Laude jocunda melos, prose (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
8. Angelus ad pastores ait, reponsory (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
9. Veni solis radius, versus (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
10. Libri sapientiae (Eccli. 24: 11-20), reading (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
11. O magnum misterium, responsory (from Matines de No�l) (St. Martial de Limoges)
12. Work(s): Improvisation m�ditative sur le th�me "O magnum misterium" / Benedicamus Domino / Deo gratias (from

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #211664 in Music
• Released on: 1998-07-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import

Customer Reviews

Good value for your money
This CD, containing a selection of 12th century French church choral music, is a good buy. The general style of the music is similar to that of the recently popular Gregorian chants, but with a greater variety of arrangements. The recording includes works for choir, solo voice and duets (all male), and solo organ.

The recording is clear and crisp and the program notes are informative. The Latin text of the music is translated in the notes, however the translation is in French.

Captivating Tunes
Astounding harmonies, hypnotic, restful, great echo. I bought this as part of a boxed set and found myself listening to "Aquitane" to the exclusion of the other material. There is something comforting and familiar and strangely accessible. The fourth hymn, "O Primus Homo Coruit," has a particularly appealing melody and engages the mystical in a way comparable to gazing at an elaborate stained glass window. "Jube Domine, Puis Lecture: Primo Tempore" will remind some of the scene in Monty Python & the Holy Grail when the monks chant and strike themselves with their Bibles. I like the first five selections best. Often play as I drift off to sleep.

Music - You Can Never Capture It
This little donkey is so expensive that it doesn't matter what's on it. Only millionaires or those who have more important stuff to spend their money on, no matter how devoted to great music one may be, will ever hear it. Was this the intention of the Divine Christ, as more than adequately and directly stated in the Sermon on the Mount?? Give what thou hast then, and follow Him! Is this sentiment not what is the message expressed in as many beautiful harmonies, nay, polyphonies, as are here sung? Then, do we listen to sound without meaning? Are we as infants, babbling and hearing but babble? Take your money then and spend to heal and succor the afflicted of the war zones and terrible proliferating slums of this heartless world, and not on this guilded donkey, that you may not be shamed when your day comes.