All tracks are based on the ballata O rosa bella (c.1420). The mass sections also contain introductory organ incipits from the Buxheimer Organ Book. Neither organ nor recorder are credited, and so are presumably played by Clemencic himself. In the case of track #14, the 3 additional voices date from the era itself, and were once thought to be by Bedingham, with the 3 original voices by Dunstable. Now it is seen as more likely that the 3 original voices are by Bedingham, with the added 3 anonymous; the added voice of track #1 is from a different anonymous source; there is also a 2-voice reworking by Ockeghem. The concluding setting by Ciconia (c.1410) is of the same text, but is musically unrelated.
Arte Nova 59210
octubre de 1997
Vienna
O rosa bella
English and
Continental Music from the Late Gothic Period
John BEDINGHAM (abt 1450) · John DUNSTABLE (1380-1453)
01 - O rosa bella [6:27]
4 vocum, fiddle
02 - Gymel super 'O rosa bella' [3:43]
Trienter Codices
recorder, 2 fiddles
MISSA SUPER 'O ROSA BELLA'
Trienter Codices · 4 vocum
03 - 1. Kyrie
[5:30]
04 - 2. Gloria
[6:32]
05 - Intabulation I of 'O rosa bella' [2:15]
Buxheimer Orgelbuch
06 - 3. Credo
[8:27]
07 - 4. Sanctus
[6:10]
08 - Intabulation II of 'O rosa bella' [2:13]
Buxheimer Orgelbuch
09 - 5. Agnus
[6:36]
10 - O rosa bella [2:13]
Trienter Codices · HERT
recorder, 2 fiddles
11 - O rosa bella [2:06]
Trienter Codices
recorder, 2 fiddles
12 - Quodlibet. In feuers hitz · O rosa bella
[3:11]
13 - Quodlibet. Hast du mir die laute bracht · O rosa bella
[1:50]
Glogauer Liederbuch
3 vocum, fiddle
John BEDINGHAM (abt 1450) · John DUNSTABLE (1380-1453)
14 - O rosa bella [4:31]
ballata e concordantiae
3 vocum, recorder, 2 fiddles
Johannes CICIONIA (1370-1411)
15 - Ballata O Rosa bella [8:56]
3 vocum, fiddle
CLEMENCIC CONSORT
René Clemencic
David James, countertenor
Bernd Lambauer, tenor
Colin Mason, baritone
Gerd Kenda, bass
Thomas Wimmer, fiddle
Igor Pomykalo, fiddle