Abelard: Hymns and Sequences for Heloise

Release Date: 3rd Nov 2017
Catalogue No: HAVP168
Label: Herald
Length: 78 minutes

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Abelard: O quanta qualia

Work length4:39

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Dolorium solatium

Work length9:03

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Suscipe

Work length3:30

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Mater Salvatoris

Work length2:21

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Ne derelinquas me

Work length3:29

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Sponsus

Work length15:53

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Epithalamica

Work length7:27

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Magnum salutis gaudium

Work length1:42

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Quam pium

Work length3:39

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Fulcite me floribus

Work length3:27

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Dum esset Rex

Work length1:41

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: De profundis

Work length11:17

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

Abelard: Samson dux fortissime

Work length10:44

Mary Berry, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge

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Two special gifts you had, wrote Heloise to Abelard years after their tragic separation, two special gifts whereby to attract straightway the heart of any woman whomsoever: the beauty of your songs and your singing Scholars have long suspected that at least a few of Master Peter Abelard's love-lyrics may have found their way anonymously into the songbooks of the later Middle Ages; but not a single melody attributable to Abelard has proved recoverable. Most medievalists tend to forget, however, that the tragic ending of the passionate love-affair between the celebrated school-man and the young Heloise marked the beginning of a new and even more profound relationship between the two. From his monastery in distant Brittany, Abelard, now Abbot of St Gildas, continued to write texts and melodies for Heloise, now Abbess of the Abbey of the Paraclete on the other side of France, near Troyes; and, in time, a sizeable body of Abelard 146;s compositions helped to give the liturgy of the Paraclete its distinctive note. Mary Berry studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and with Thurston Dart at the University of Cambridge, where she specialised in sacred music. Following her doctoral thesis 145;The Performance of Plainsong in the Later Middle Ages and the Sixteenth Century 146;, she researched the evolution of different styles and interpretation of 10th- and 12th-century chant, particularly in France, where she worked and studied for many years.

Recorded May 1993 at Winchester Cathedral

Abelard: Hymns and Sequences for Heloise

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