Pérotin and the Ars Antiqua

Aquitanian Repertory Anonymous (Composer), English Anonymous (Composer), Leonin (Composer), Perotin (Composer), Gordon Jones (Performer), David James (Performer), John Potter (Performer), Rogers Covey-Crump (Performer), Hilliard Ensemble (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Gordon Jones, David James, John Potter, Rogers Covey-Crump, Hilliard Ensemble
• Composer: Aquitanian Repertory Anonymous, English Anonymous, Leonin, Perotin
• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Coro
• ASIN: B000N39HDA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,635 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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"It would be impossible to adequately describe the inherent haunting beauty of Pérotin's music, or to fully detail its far-reaching influence in latter-twelfth-century France." --David Vernier, Amazon.com

The Hilliard LIVE Series was originally produced by the BBC for lobby sale at Hilliard Ensemble concert events, and was not available commercially. This album was recorded live in concert in August 1996 at the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. Pérotin (fl. ca. 1200) was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony. Pérotin was one of very few composers of his day whose name has been preserved, and can be reliably attached to individual compositions. The first Hilliard Ensemble disc on CORO.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Tapestry in Music, September 7, 2011

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A delightful presentation of music by Magister Perotin performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. For this listener, the extraordinary long syllables of the Viderunt Omnes are one of the highlights of this collection of organa by the master whose compositions laid the foundations for the development and wider adoption of polyphonic harmony in Western music. To hear this music is (with perhaps the exception of the applause that greets the Ensemble in the opening track) to eavesdrop on some of the finest avant-garde music-making of thirteenth century Paris.