Ensemble: Altramar
Album: Celtic Wanderers, The Pilgrim's Road
Video: Book of St Albans, XIII secolo
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The Altramar ensemble is certainly the discovery that most thrilled me when searching among the early music productions of the 90s and early 2000s. In those years the aesthetic and artistic taste was undermined by countless productions which saw monks engaged in pseudo Gregorian chants supported by unlikely new age keyboards. Altramar's productions are still innovative today: original, never banal and philologically credible. From their website we read: "Altramar Medieval Music Ensemble was co-founded in 1991 by Angela Mariani, Jann Cosart, David Stattelman, Chris Smith, and Allison Zelles. Altramar has recorded seven CDs for the Dorian label and toured in North America and abroad, including early music festivals and series with international audiences such as Boston, Regensberg, and Utrecht. In 2009, Altramar was invited to record several pieces for the Norton Anthology of Music, the most widely-used music history anthology and textbook in the English language. Every one of Altramar’s recording projects involved months of specialized research into the medieval musician’s processes and practices; historical instruments; the poetics and historical languages of the texts; the deciphering of the early notation in which these musics were recorded; and the inventive and improvisatory processes necessary to create a fully-realized performance from this relatively non-prescriptive medieval notation."
This one is "Celtic Wanderers", the second of their albums that I decided to present to you. Don't forget to purchase their works, available at very affordable prices at the link at the end of the description.
About the video: for all the albums of Altramar focused on the Celtic colture I've used the wonderful "Book of St Albans", a manuscript of the 13th century preserved at the Trinity College in Ireland.

I wish you happy listening!
Mirkò Virginio Volpe
MUSICA MEDIEVALE
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1 Ductu Angelico - Trinity College Dublin, MS 79 - 15th cent.
2 Prosa: Dilecte Deo Galle - Notker Balbulus "Liber Hymnorum", MS San Gall 318 - 10th cent.
3 Ductia Angelorum - Jann Cossart after "Ductu Angelico"
4 O Mirum Admirandum - Hildegard Von Bingen

Two vespers antiphons from the Office of St. Kilian - 12th cent.
5 Christi Martir
6 Chorus Resonet

Six antiphons from the Office of St. Kilian - 12th cent.
7 Iter Beatitudinis Beatus Kylianus
8 Socios Assumpsit Itineris
9 Pergentes Simul Mirificati
10 Gloriati Sunt In Domino
11 Nomen Tuum Sanctum Est Domine
12 Predicando Verbum Dei

13 Puella Christi - 12th cent.
14 Planctus Cygni - MS Latin 887
15 Samson Dux Fortissime - MS Harley 978
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Jann Cosart - cruit, vielle
Angela Mariani - voice, medieval celtic harp, cruit, percussion
Chris Smith - cruit, gittern
David Stattelman - voice
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