Oshkosh Public Library

The Canterbury pilgrims, music for Chaucer's prologue, Opus Anglicanum

eng

libretto or text

part songs

not applicable

The Canterbury pilgrims

compact disc

44743005

Recorded in Dorchester Abbey, Oxon., November 1994

Opus Anglicanum

music for Chaucer's prologue

Sumer is icumen in (2:54) -- Reading: The Prologue, first part (0:55) -- In Rama sonat gemitus (Anon. 12thc.) (1:26) -- Solemne canticum : Sequence for St Thomas (2:32) -- Thomas gemma Cantuariensis/Thomas caesus English 14thc. (2:31) -- Reading: The Prologue, second part (1:13) -- L'homme arme (French 14thc.) (0:34) -- Reading: The Knight, The Squire (3:17) -- Amor mi fa canta (Italian 14thc.) (2:09) -- Dame, de qui toute / Guillaume de Machaut (3:41) -- Alma redemptoris mater / Hermannus Contractus (1:55) -- Reading: The Prioress (2:38) -- Ave regina caelorum / Lionel Power (2:00) -- Reading: The Monk (2:29) -- Tosto che l'alba / Ghirardello da Fierenze (2:41) -- Douce dame jolie / Guillaume de Machaut (2:04) -- Reading: The Merchant (0:55) -- Taant doucement / Guillaume de Machaut (2:02) -- Reading: The Clerk, the Franklin (3:07) --Vos qui admirimini / Philippe de Vitry (2:50) -- Reading: The Sailor, the Wife of Bath (3:03) -- Io son un pellegrin / Giovanni da Florentia (2:41) -- Comment qu'a moy / Guillaume de Machaut (1:30) -- Reading: The Priest, the Ploughman (3:49) -- Beata progenies / Lionel Power (1:21) -- Angelus ad virginem (English 14thc.) (2:34) -- Reading: The Miller (1:20) -- Questa fanciull' amor / Francesco Landini (2:01) -- Reading: The Pardoner (3:05) -- Sub Arturo plebs / J. Alanus (3:39) -- Reading: The Host (3:58) -- Sanctus and benedictus (English c1375) (2:42) -- Reading: The journey begins (2:18) -- Sumer is icumen in (0:52)