Trigon Ensemble - A Medieval Christmas, Songs from the Netherlands from 15th and 16th century manuscripts (2017) [DSD & Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Ave celestis regina a2 (Utrecht, ca. 1480)
02. Ons is gheboren nu ter tijt a2 (Utrecht)
03. Septem gaudia beate Marie: Gaude virgo a1(Utrecht)
04. Ave maris stella a2 (Utrecht)
05. Laet ons mit hoegher vrolicheit a1 (Utrecht)
06. Ave maris stella a2 (Begijnhof Amsterdam, after 1609)
07. Ave Maria, O suijver maecht a2 (Begijnhof Amsterdam)
08. Iubilemus singuli a3 (IJsselvallei / Zwolle)
09. O suver maecht van Ysrahel a1 (Utrecht)
10. Nicolai solempnia a3 (Utrecht)
11. Het viel een hemels dauwe a2 (Soeterbeeck)
12. Een kindekijn is ons gheboren / Die coninghen uut orienten a1 (Utrecht)
13. Ad festum leticie a2 (Soeterbeeck)
14. Laet ons mit hartzen reyne / Ons is een kint gheboren a1 (Utrecht)
15. Iubilus Bernardi: Ihesu dulcis memoria a2 (Utrecht)
16. O maiestas deica a3 (Utrecht)
17. Regi psallens hec contio a2 (Utrecht)
18. Universalis ecclesia a3 (Utrecht)
19. Totus mundus sit iocundus a2 (Utrecht)
20. In dulci iublio a2 (Tongeren)


On this album Trigon sings Christmas carols from 15th and 16th century manuscripts of the Modern Devotion movement. These include manuscripts from a convent near Utrecht (Berlin 190), one from the former Soeterbeeck convent, the Tongeren Manuscript and a manuscript from Zwolle / the IJssel Valley. Trigon also sings two songs found in a manuscript from the ‘rondebegynhof’, the encircled Beguinage in Amsterdam, dating from the start of the 17th century.

The Modern Devotion was a movement of spiritual revival within the medieval Roman Catholic Church that arose at the end of the 14th century. This was a period of great unrest. The Plague was a regular scourge in all of Western Europe and wars were forever being waged. Adherents of the Modern Devotion, with their doctrine of following Christ’s example, spread spiritual relief and comfort…

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