Bordesholmer Marienklage / The Bordesholm Lament of Virgin Mary
Lamento de Bordesholm de la Virgen María
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77280
1992

This is a German play, Lament of the Virgin Mary, manuscript from 1475/6. Despite the date, it remains medieval in conception. (medieval.org)





[Partes cantadas en negrita / sung parts in bold]:

[CD 1]

01 – Circumdederunt (Jesus/Chor) – Quam tribulatio proxima est (Jesus) – Sed tu domine defensor vindica me (Jesus) 4.28

02 - Horet gij sahligen (Johannes) - Pater Noster - Ave Maria (Volk/Zuschauer) 12.01

{03 - INSERT I - Maria suesse meichdekyn (Marien)  4.57}

04 - Ghat sytten gij leven kynder (Johannes) - Anxiatus est in me spiritus meus  - O aller barmhertigeste god (Virgo Maria) - Neen Maria leve medder (Johannes) - Johannes myn vil leve vrund (Virgo Maria) - Maria leve medder (Johannes) 3.54

05 - Owe des ghandes des yk gha (Virgo Maria) - Owe Maria dat ys dat leve kynt dyn (Johannes) - Owe ys dat myn leve tryten sone (Virgo Maria) 4.17

06 - Owe yamer unde not - Eya moderlyke herte (Virgo Maria) 1.29

07 - Myn volk wo seer hestu dy (Jesus) - Ik horede enen roep - Ach wo grote pyne unde smerte (Virgo Maria)  4.02

08 - O quantus luctus - Owe wo grote yamercheyt (Maria Magdalena) 2.20

{09 - INSERT II - Ave maris stella (Maria Magdalena & Mater Johannis) 1.58}

10 - Jam auctor lucis - O wo grote not unde smerte (Mater Johannis) - Ach wo grote pyne unde smerte - Vrunt Johannes neve gute - O wy unde we wo grot herteleyt (Virgo Maria) 3.48

11 - Tristor et cuncti tristantur - Maria leve medder he scholde wyn steynen herte dragen (Johannes) - O quam tristis et afflicta (Maria Magdalena & Mater Johannis) 3.45

{12 - INSERT III - m, Adam de St. VICTOR [Laudes crucis attollamus]; t, Jacopone da Todi - Stabat mater dolorosa (Chor) 6.13}

13 - We helpet klagen myn grote leyt (Virgo Maria) - O quam tristis et afflicta (Maria Magdalena & Mater Johannis) - We helpet klagen myn grote leyt (Marien) - Eyne schone boven alle schone (Virgo Maria) 11.43

14 - Maria aller junckfrowen eyn ere - Maria moder reyne schryn - O du arme yoden kynt (Maria Magdalena) 3.28

{15 - INSERT IV - Peter von ARBERG - Och starker god [Große Tageweise, Strophen 1,2] 3.31 (Maria Magdalena & Ensemble)}



[CD 2]
01 - Owy owe wat lydet nu myn herte (Virgo Maria) - Owy owe wat lydet nu myn herte (Marien) - Nu schowet gij slygen lude (Virgo Maria) - Ach wo sere - Hic acetum fel arundo (Mater Johannis) 5.53

{02 - INSERT V - Venantius FORTUNATUS - Crux fidelis (Ensemble) 0.57 [from the Hymn "Pange lingua gloriosi"] 0.57}

03 - Jhesu criste dyn grote herteleyt (Mater Johannis) - Groter klage ys my not - Eya moderlyke herte (Virgo Maria) 3.18

04 - Vrowes name do da myner lere (Jesus) - Nu hebbe ik vorlaren allent dat yk haen (Virgo Maria) - Werde maget unde moder myn (Jesus) - Owy owe der wesselingen schicht - Leve kynt mynem herten ys so banghe (Virgo Maria) - O quam tristis et afflicta (Maria Magdalena/Mater Johannis) - Johannes junghere ghute (Jesus) - Here unde meyster dat schal my ghetermen (Johannes) - Nu schal ok eyn ende syn (Jesus) - Owy owe nu ys he dot (Virgo Maria, Mater Johannis, Johannes) 12.55

05 - O Maria dyn lydent ys alto grot - Maria moder unde maget reyne (Johannes) - Nu ys ok weynent myr beschen - Jhesu Criste leve kynt ware mynsche unde ware god (Virgo Maria) 2.34

06 - De sune de lynt - De erde bevet (Maria Magdalena) 1.42

07 - Owe dot Dessen not - Eya eya moderlyke herte - Symeonis grymmige swert - O gij saligen lute (Virgo Maria) 3.27

08 - O godes kynt - Owy unde owe over unsen not (Mater Johannis) - Flecte ramos arbor alta (Marien) - O du eddele boem van hoger werde (Virgo Maria) - O eddele junckfrowe Maria unde reyne maget (Johannes) 3.46

09 - Leven vrundes - Maria moder bystu myn - Maroa medder unde moder myn (Johannes) - O Johannes dat grote unschuldige lydent syn - Johannes nuwer sone myn - O wy unde we dat ik gy wart gheboren (Virgo Maria) - Sta up Maria mynes herten allerleveste trut (Johannes) - Johannes myner leven suster kynt (Virgo Maria) - O leven vrundes (Johannes) 12.58

10 - Pater noster - Ave Maria (Alle) - Ik bevele juw gode unte sunte Marien - Oremus (Johannes) - Amen (Alle) 3.03

11 - Tenebre facte sunt (Chor) 3.39

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INSERTS:

I - From the songbook of Anna of Cologne, No 77, verses 1 2 3 5 7 9 11 8 16 17; Berlin, National Libray Prussian cultural property, ms germ 8 No. 280, fol, 165R
II - From the Commune festorum Beatae Mariae Virginis. In II Vesperis. Verses 1 2 3 5 6

III - Sequence, today: Festum Septem dolorum Beatae Mariae Virginis, attr. to Jacopone da Todi (d. 1306) verses 1-10. Text according to analecta hymnica, vol. 54, p 312. Melody from "Laudes crucis attollamus", att. to Adam of Saint Victor (d.1192)

IV - Peter von Arberg - Och starker god [Große Tageweise, Strophen 1,2]. Normalized translation on the basis of Thomas Cramer's edition, Die kleineren Liederdichter des 14. un 15. Jahrhunderts, Vol. 2, Muncih: Fink 1979, p.444-451, verses 1 and 2. Text according to Cramer, sung in a slightly changed Lower German version.

V - Crux fidelis (+ Hic acetum fel arundo, #CD2-01) - From the Hymn "Pange lingua, gloriosi-Lauream certaminis" from Venantius Fortunatus (d.c600) from the "adoratio crucis" of the liturgy of Good Friday.




SEQUENTIA
Barbara Thornton & Benjamin Bagby

Barbara Thornton, Virgo Maria
Susanne Norin, Maria Magdalena
Cornelia Melián, Mater Johannis
Stephen Grant, Jesus
Benjamin Bagby, Johannes

Roy Wheldon, medieval fidel, made by Fabrizio Reginato, Fonte Alto, Italy, 1980

&

CHORALSCHOLA ESSEN
Christoph Erkens (Leitung)
Werner Hespe, Thomas Höfling, Christoph Lahme, Bernd Piepenbreier, Jörg Prayer, Andreas Pruys, Lucius Rühl, Oliver Sperling,

members of the Sequentia men's vocal ensemble:
Eric Mentzel (soloist in Tenebre facte sunt), Raimund Nolte, Bernhard Schneider

Duración: 71', 54'
Grabado en la producción escénica en Xanten (abril de 1992)