Music the ancient/classic music thread

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Sometimes I wonder why I start music threads that almost nobody will care about
Probably 'cause I'm an attention whore... or most probably 'cause it exists music that is worth to be known... music I know of only by chance and not for some merit I have (Jorge Luis Borges said something similar about the stories he wrote, as if the stories were just there in a strange platonic world of ideas waiting to be told... - differently from Borges I didn't write anything... but the stories are there, waiting to be listened to...)

So, if you like, post here links to music ranging from Middle Age to the end of the 19th century, or anything related to, you think it's worth to be known...

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Chant of the Templars - Salve Regina

Medieval Chant of the Templars. Era of the Crusades.
Title: "Antiphona: Salve Regina".
Performers: Ensemble Organum, Director: Marcel Peres
Album: "Le chant des Templiers"

Goosebumps...
Just listen to the chthonic vibration of the bass voices...

Often people got a stereotyped idea of what was the music of the Medieval Age...
They always imagine the Lord of the Rings or some minor american bullshit B-movie about knights full of special effects and with no substance...

Well... the album where this tune come from, can put together the haughty scholar and the blockbuster addicted...
Have a listen...

(This post was last modified: 09-18-2012, 04:23 AM by n0b0dyh0me.)

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medieval - The Ensemble Organum (Marcel Pérès) Discography



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_Organum


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They are a french ensemble performing since the 80s founded by the french musicologist Marcel Pérès;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_P%C3%A9r%C3%A8s


Their repertoire is based on the ancient medieval music... starting from the pregregorian era (the protochristian period), passing through the Ecole of Notre Dame, digging the ancient manuscripts of the tradition and covering also early ethnic corsican drifts.
I discovered them only recently, scavenging Youtube for ancient music and I remained thunderstruck by the subterranean vibration of their voices which triggered electric sensations up and down my spine...
It does not need any lore to be caught by their magic... If you have a basic ear for music you wont be displeased... believe me

There are 34 albums.
All the albums have a sampling of 320kbps. Enjoy.

Album List:

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1984 - Polyphonie Aquitaine Du XII Siecle
1985 - Messe du Jour de Noel - Ecole de Notre-Dame
1986 - Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Période byzantine
1986 - Josquin Desprez - Missa Pange Lingua
1987 - Codex Chantilly
1987 - Corsica - Chants Polyphoniques
1987 - François Couperin - Messe
1989 - Chants de L'Eglise Milanaise (Organum)
1990 - Carmina Burana
1990 - Le Jeu des Pélerins d'Emmaus
1990 - Plain Chant - Cathédrale d'Auxerre XVIIIe siécle
1991 - Codex Faenza. Italie, XVe siécle
1991 - Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne
1991 - Messe de Tournai
1992 - Chant Cistercien
1992 - Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Messe de St Marcel
1992 - Palestrina - Missa Viri Galilaei
1993 - Chants de la Cathédrale de Benevento
1993 - Johannes Ockeghem - Requiem
1994 - Chant Corse
1994 - Plain-chant parisien
1995 - Ancient Voices - Vox Sacra
1995 - Chant Mozarabe - Cathedrale de Tolede - XVe siécle
1995 - Ecole Notre Dame - Messe De La Nativité De La Vierge
1996 - Laudario di Cortona
1996 - Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame
1997 - Hildegard von Bingen - Laudes De Sainte Ursule
1998 - Chants de l'Eglise de Rome - Vepres
2004 - Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi
2005 - Antiphonaire des Invalides, 1682
2005 - Le Chant Des Premieres Chretiens
2006 - Le Chant des Templiers
2008 - Chant de l'Eglise de Rome (Vi - XIII siécles)
2009 - Missa Gotica

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Arte Factum Música Medieval - In Taberna quando sumus

In modern words you could translate "When we are at the pub drinking..."
Dionysus is around...

And don't believe the beastialities you read online... this is not Orff's... these are the original medieval Carmina Burana

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In taberna quando sumus
non curamus quid sit humus,
sed ad ludum properamus,
cui semper insudamus.

Quid agatur in taberna
ubi nummus est pincerna,
hoc est opus ut queratur,
si quid loquar, audiatur.

Quidam ludunt, quidam bibunt,
quidam indiscrete vivunt.
Sed in ludo qui morantur,
ex his quidam denudantur
quidam ibi vestiuntur,
quidam saccis induuntur.

Ibi nullus timet mortem
sed pro Baccho mittunt sortem:
Primo pro nummata vini,
ex hac bibunt libertini;
semel bibunt pro captivis,
post hec bibunt ter pro vivis,
quater pro Christianis cunctis
quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis,
sexies pro sororibus vanis,
septies pro militibus silvanis.

Octies pro fratribus perversis,
nonies pro monachis dispersis,
decies pro navigantibus
undecies pro discordaniibus,
duodecies pro penitentibus,
tredecies pro iter agentibus.

Tam pro papa quam pro rege
bibunt omnes sine lege.
Bibit hera, bibit herus,
bibit miles, bibit clerus,
bibit ille, bibit illa,
bibit servis cum ancilla,
bibit velox, bibit piger,
bibit albus, bibit niger,
bibit constans, bibit vagus,
bibit rudis, bibit magnus.

Bibit pauper et egrotus,
bibit exul et ignotus,
bibit puer, bibit canus,
bibit presul et decanus,
bibit soror, bibit frater,
bibit anus, bibit mater,
bibit ista, bibit ille,
bibunt centum, bibunt mille.

Parum sexcente nummate
durant, cum immoderate
bibunt omnes sine meta.

Quamvis bibant mente leta,
sic nos rodunt omnes gentes
et sic erimus egentes.

Qui nos rodunt confundantur
et cum iustis non scribantur.

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When we are in the tavern,
we do not think how we will go to dust,
but we hurry to gamble,
which always makes us sweat.

What happens in the tavern,
where money is host,
you may well ask,
and hear what I say.

Some gamble, some drink,
some behave loosely.
But of those who gamble,
some are stripped bare,
some win their clothes here,
some are dressed in sacks.

Here no-one fears death,
but they throw the dice in the name of Bacchus.
First of all it is to the wine-merchant
the the libertines drink,
one for the prisoners,
three for the living,
four for all Christians,
five for the faithful dead,
six for the loose sisters,
seven for the footpads in the wood,

Eight for the errant brethren,
nine for the dispersed monks,
ten for the seamen,
eleven for the squabblers,
twelve for the penitent,
thirteen for the wayfarers.

To the Pope as to the king
they all drink without restraint.
The mistress drinks, the master drinks,
the soldier drinks, the priest drinks,
the man drinks, the woman drinks,
the servant drinks with the maid,
the swift man drinks, the lazy man drinks,
the white man drinks, the black man drinks,
the settled man drinks, the wanderer drinks,
the stupid man drinks, the wise man drinks,
The poor man drinks, the sick man drinks,
the exile drinks, and the stranger,
the boy drinks, the old man drinks,
the bishop drinks, and the deacon,
the sister drinks, the brother drinks,
the old lady drinks, the mother drinks,
this man drinks, that man drinks,
a hundred drink, a thousand drink.

Six hundred pennies would hardly
if everyonedrinks immoderately and immeasurably.
However much they cheerfully drink
we are the ones whom everyone scolds,
and thus we are destitute.

May those who slander us be cursed
and may their names not be written in the book of the righteous.

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Claudio Monteverdi - Voglio di Vita Uscir

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Pachelbel - Canon In D Major

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Hexperion XX - Cansos de Trobairitz



Let's now talk about women...
Once I was sniffing in the corners of a music store and I found this album that intrigued me... A woman passing by gave me a wide smiling glance and the girl at the cashier point did the same... Since I'm not used like Ben Affleck in that deodorant ad to be in need of a counter for horny women glances, I mused what was really happening...
And then I realized I just bought Cansos de Trobairitz that is Songs of the Women Troubadours performed by the Hesperion XX ensemble by Jordi Savall...
This is the entire album... Enjoy

Hesperion XX - Cansos de Trobairitz



00'00" 01 - Vos que-m semblatz dels corals amadors
03'56" 02 - Estat ai en greu cossirier
10'07" 03 - Na Carenza al bel cors avinen
16'02" 04 - Si-us quer conselh, bel ami Alamanda
25'48" 05 - Ab joi et ab joven m'apais
31'19" 06 - A chantar m'er de so q'ieu no voldria
39'42" 07 - S'anc fui belha ni prezada

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    TITLE "07 - S'anc fui belha ni prezada"
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Dufay - Pomerium - The Virgin and the Temple



You know... I'm really partial to ancient french musical and in particular to Guillaume Dufay... So, enjoy this 1997 album performed by Pomerium, the ensemble founded by Alexander Blachly...

Dufay - Pomerium - The Virgin and the Temple - 1




00'00" 01 - Nuper rosarum flores
06'27" 02 - Alma redemptoris mater II
10'05" 03 - Letabundus exsultet fidelis chorus
16'45" 04 - Ecclesie militantis
22'51" 05 - Deus in adiutorium meum
23'33" 06 - Antiphon 1 - Tenebre diffugiunt
26'51" 07 - Antiphon 2 - Solem iusticie

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    TITLE "03 - Letabundus exsultet fidelis chorus"
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Dufay - Pomerium - The Virgin and the Temple - 2



00'00" 08 - Antiphon 3 - Gabriel archangelus
04'28" 09 - Antiphon 4 - Non concava vallium
08'43" 10 - Antiphon 5 - Virgo puerum sistit in templo
12'14" 11 - Hymn - Gaude redempta
14'50" 12 - Responsory - Surge propera
17'58" 13 - Antiphon for the magnificat
29'30" 14 - Benedicamus Domino II

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great stuff,nobo

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Glenn Gould - Mozart, The Piano Sonatas vol. 1 cd1



From time to time, with no particular reason, I'm filled with the urge to travel high in the astral planes and explore the heavens... But being utterly incapable to rise I find the company of Wolfgang and Glenn a good surrogate experience...
The Piano Sonatas vol. 1 is a double CD album... I post today the first CD... the second will follow in my next post...

You can find the Glenn Gould discography in this torrent:



Enjoy

Glenn Gould - Mozart, the piano sonatas vol. 1 cd1 - 1



00'00" 01 - Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K.279 (189d) - I Allegro
04'18" 02 - Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K.279 (189d) - II Andante
09'49" 03 - Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K.279 (189d) - III Allegro
11'44" 04 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - I Allegro assai
15'00" 05 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - II Adagio
20'10" 06 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - III Presto
22'07" 07 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - I Allegro
25'01" 08 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - II Andante amoroso
29'36" 09 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - III Rondo_ Allegro

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    INDEX 01 00:00:000
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "02 - Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K.279 (189d) - II Andante"
    INDEX 01 04:18:000
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "03 - Sonata No. 1 in C Major, K.279 (189d) - III Allegro"
    INDEX 01 09:49:000
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    TITLE "04 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - I Allegro assai"
    INDEX 01 11:44:000
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    TITLE "05 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - II Adagio"
    INDEX 01 15:00:000
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    TITLE "06 - Sonata No. 2 in F Major, K.280 (189e) - III Presto"
    INDEX 01 20:10:000
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "07 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - I Allegro"
    INDEX 01 22:07:000
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    TITLE "08 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - II Andante amoroso"
    INDEX 01 25:01:000
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "09 - Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major, K.281 (189f) - III Rondo_ Allegro"
    INDEX 01 29:36:000

Glenn Gould - Mozart, the piano sonatas vol. 1 cd1 - 2



00'00" 10 - Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.282 (189g) - I Adagio
02'41" 11 - Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.282 (189g) - II Menuetto I and II
06'13" 12 - Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.282 (189g) - III Allegro
07'33" 13 - Sonata No. 5 in G Major, K.283 (189h) - I Allegro
09'48" 14 - Sonata No. 5 in G Major, K.283 (189h) - II Andante
12'29" 15 - Sonata No. 5 in G Major, K.283 (189h) - III Presto
15'14" 16 - Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K.284 (205b) 'Durnitz' - I Allegro
18'18" 17 - Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K.284 (205b) 'Durnitz' - II Rondeau en Polonaise_ Andante
21'23" 18 - Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K.284 (205b) 'Durnitz' - III Theme and Variations

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    INDEX 01 00:00:000
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "11 - Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.282 (189g) - II Menuetto I and II"
    INDEX 01 02:41:000
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "12 - Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, K.282 (189g) - III Allegro"
    INDEX 01 06:13:000
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    TITLE "13 - Sonata No. 5 in G Major, K.283 (189h) - I Allegro"
    INDEX 01 07:33:000
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    INDEX 01 09:48:000
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    INDEX 01 12:29:000
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    INDEX 01 15:14:000
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    INDEX 01 18:18:000
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    TITLE "18 - Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K.284 (205b) 'Durnitz' - III Theme and Variations"
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Glenn Gould - Mozart, The Piano Sonatas vol. 1 cd2



As I promised, here's the second CD...

You can find the Glenn Gould discography in this torrent:



Enjoy

Glenn Gould - Mozart, the piano sonatas vol. 1 cd2 - 1



00'00" 01 - Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K.309 (284b) - I Allegro con spirito
03'41" 02 - Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K.309 (284b) - II Andante un poco adagio
10'10" 03 - Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K.309 (284b) - III Rondo_ Allegretto grazioso
15'54" 04 - Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K.310 (300d) - I Allegro maestoso
19'11" 05 - Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K.310 (300d) - II Andante cantabile con espressione
25'30" 06 - Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K.310 (300d) - III Presto

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    TITLE "02 - Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K.309 (284b) - II Andante un poco adagio"
    INDEX 01 03:41:000
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "03 - Sonata No. 7 in C Major, K.309 (284b) - III Rondo_ Allegretto grazioso"
    INDEX 01 10:10:000
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    TITLE "04 - Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K.310 (300d) - I Allegro maestoso"
    INDEX 01 15:54:000
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    TITLE "06 - Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K.310 (300d) - III Presto"
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Glenn Gould - Mozart, the piano sonatas vol. 1 cd2 - 2



00'00" 07 - Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311 (284c) - I Allegro con spirito
02'38" 08 - Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311 (284c) - II Andante con espressione
07'03" 09 - Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311 (284c) - III Rondo_ Allegro
12'29" 10 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - I Allegro moderato
15'50" 11 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - II Andante cantabile
20'23" 12 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - III Allegretto

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    TITLE "08 - Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311 (284c) - II Andante con espressione"
    INDEX 01 02:38:000
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    TITLE "09 - Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K.311 (284c) - III Rondo_ Allegro"
    INDEX 01 07:03:000
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    TITLE "10 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - I Allegro moderato"
    INDEX 01 12:29:000
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    TITLE "11 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - II Andante cantabile"
    INDEX 01 15:50:000
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "12 - Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330 (300h) - III Allegretto"
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