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La bele Marie

Songs to the Virgin from 13th-century France

Anonymous 4

La bele Marie
sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.

La bele Marie

Songs to the Virgin from 13th-century France

Anonymous 4

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sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.

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A radiant and varied collection of 13th-century French conductus and chansons in praise of the Virgin Mary from 2002. Drawn from the Notre Dame repertoire, or adapted from vernacular lyrics of the northern French trouvères, these ardent songs echo the European prehistoric culture of goddess worship.

Contents and tracklist

O maria o felix puerpera
Track length3:43
Pia mater gratie
Track length2:49
O maria virginei
Track length4:17
Verbum bonum et suave
Track length4:02
Ave salus hominum
Track length3:30
Ave maria gracia plena
Track length2:44
Beata viscera (Perotin)
Track length6:23
Mundum renovavit
Track length2:58
Salve sancta parens
Track length3:15
Serena virginum
Track length3:44
Ave virgo virginum
Track length3:08
Mater patris et filia
Track length4:40
Ave nobilis venerabilis
Track length3:48

Awards and reviews

6 October 2002

sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.

Anonymous 4 cast a spell difficult to resist.
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