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2005: Estonian Recording Productions ERP
2009: Erdenklang EK 61143
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1. Danse real [2:35] 13th c.
2. Ave donna [5:07] 14th c.
3. Benedictus (an., 13th c.) [1:56] 13th c.
4. La flour d'iver [7:03]
Guillaume LE VINIER, 13th c. | chanson
5. Saltarello [3:16] 13th c.
6. Santa Maria amar [9:35] 13th c.
CSM 7
7. L'autrier m'iere levaz [2:18] 12th c. | pastourelle
8. De bonté, de valour [2:10]
Guillaume de MACHAUT, 14th c. | virelai
9. Deo confitemini ~ Domino [1:45] 14th c. | double motet
10. Amours et ma dame aussi [2:14]
Adam DE LA HALLE, 13th c. | rondeau
11. Or est Baiars en la pasture [0:55]
Adam DE LA HALLE, 13th c.
12. Belicha [9:46] 13th c. | istampitta
13. Au renouvel du tens [5:29] 13th c. | pastourelle
14. Estampie real V & VI [4:55] 14th c. | royal dances
15. Chanterai por mon coraige [2:57]
Guiot de DIJON, 12th c. | chanson
16. Ave Maria (an., 15th c.) [2:41] 15th c.
Hortus Musicus
Andres Mustonen
Helle Mustonen – soprano
Joosep Vahermägi – tenor
Jaan Arder – tenor / baritone
Riho Ridbeck – bass, percussion
Neeme Punder – recorder, transverse flute, crumhorn
Olev Ainomäe – bombardone, recorder, crumhorn
Tõnis Kuurme – dulcian, crumhorn
Valter Jürgenson – trombone
Andres Mustonen – violin, viola da gamba, recorder
Peeter Klaas – viola da gamba
Imre Eenma – violone
Ivo Sillamaa – positive organ
Recorded at Tallinn Merchant Guild and Estonia Concert Hall, 1998
Engineered by Priit Kuulberg and Maido Maadik
Designed by Piret Mikk
Recording producer – Peeter Vähi
Stereo, DDD / Original dynamics recording, no equalization, no editing
(!)
© 2005 Hortus Musicus, ERP
Ave . . . |
In memoriam Helle Mustonen (1950-2005) |
Musica humana, das ist die Harmonie des
Mikrokosmos, die sich im Verhältnis zwischen Körper und
Seele, auch zwischen “geistigen und seelischen
Kräften” äußert. In Anwendung pythagoreischer und
platonischer Gedanken baut die Seele auf konsonierenden Zahlen auf und
kann durch Musik ethisch beeinflußt werden. (Boethius)
Cantare amantis est. (Augustinus)
Qui bene cantat, bis orat. (Augustinus)
Muusikas kätkeb midagi muud kui vaid lihalik ja mööduv
mõnu, temas on igavese hüve juur. (Augustinus)
Sacred music should be characterized by liturgical values of higher
level: sanctity, perfection of form that spontaneously give birth to
its second feature – universality. (Pius X)
Man hatte nähmlich bemerkt, das die fünf Finger der
menschlichen Hand genau so viele Glieder zählten, als das System
Guidos, vom großen G bis zum zweigestrichenen d gerechnet,
Töne umfaßte. (Emil Naumann)
Although valued as an important aspect, for HORTUS MUSICUS authenticity
in terms of music history has always been a means to an end, not a
goal! Authenticity of this kind can be learned, and humbly approached.
But if the hearts, heads and hands of the musicians are directed by
self-knowledge and self-determination, the results will be different.
For 28 years now, the Estonian Ensemble for Ancient Music has followed
its vision of a unique manner of interpretation.
In medieval written music nothing is left out deliberately which would
be regarded as stylistically undue or as not matching the traditional
"bon ton". But keeping their eyes ahead, behind, up and down, the
musicians are discovering new things all the time which inspire them to
extend the sparse written material. The hands have been "educated by
age" and want to juxtapose contemporarity against theoretical
education. The head knows about the cultural and music historical
interconnectedness with our remote neighbours in the Islamic countries,
in Asia Minor, India and the Far East, and about what our music owes to
their music. And the hearts are the hearts of full-blooded young
musicians who want to play medieval music in a way that the
contemporary listener will find it understandable and pleasant, and
maybe even necessary.
The result is a spirited, sparkling music which is newly born in every
performance, understandable not only to the expert but to every
benevolent listener who is longing for something fresh and
inconceivable. This is the "musical garden" of the 21st Century.