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Maier, M: Atalanta Fugiens

Recorded in St Andrew’s Church, Toddington, Gloucestershire August 2008

Ensemble Plus Ultra: Grace Davidson (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Warren Trevelyan-Jones (tenor), Giles Underwood (bass), Stephen Jones (er-hu), Sue Addison (sackbut) & Marie Bournisien (Renaissance harp)

Michael Noone (direction)

The uppermost lines represent Atalanta and Hippomenes, while the cantus firmus, from a Gregorian plainsong, signifies the apples Hippomenes rolled in Atalanta’s way during their race, enabling... — Sunday Times, 8th May 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Apr 2011
Catalogue No: GCDP31407
Label: Glossa
Series: Platinum
Length: 71 minutes

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Maier, M: Atalanta Fugiens

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Fuga I: Portavit eum ventus in ventre suo

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Fuga II: Nutrix ejus terra est

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Fuga III: Vade ad mulierem lavantem pannos, tu fac similiter

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Fuga IV: Conjunge fratrem cum sorore et propina illis poculum amoris

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Fuga V: Appone mulieri super mammas bufonem, ut ablactet eum, et moriatur mulier, sitque bufo grossus de lacte

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Fuga VI: Seminate aurum vestrum in terram albam foliatam

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Fuga VII: Fit pullus a nido volans, qui iterum cadit in nidum

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Fuga VIII: Accipe ovum et igneo percute gladio

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Fuga IX: Arborem cum sene conclude in rorida domo, et comedens de fructu ejus fiet juvenis

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Fuga X: Da ignem igni, Mercurium Mercurio, et sufficit tibi

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Fuga XI: Dealbate Latonam et rumpite libros

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Fuga XII: Lapis, quem Saturnus, pro Jove filio devoratum, evomuit, pro monumento in Helicone mortalibus est positus

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Fuga XIII: Aes Philosophorum hydropicum est, et vult lavari septies in fluvio, ut Naaman leprosus in Jordane

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Fuga XIV: Hic est Draco caudam suam devorans

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Fuga XV: Opus figuli, consistens in sicco et humido, te doceat

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Fuga XVI: Hic leo, quas plumas non habet, alter habet

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Fuga XVII: Orbita quadruplex hoc regit ignis opus

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Fuga XVIII: Ignire ignis amat, non aurificare, sed aurum

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Fuga XIX: Si de quattuor unum Occidas, subito mortuus omnis erit

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Fuga XX: Naturam natura docet, debellet ut ignem

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Fuga XXI: Fac ex mare et foemina circulum, inde quadrangulum, hinc triangulum, fac circulum et habebis lap. Philosophorum

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Fuga XXII: Plumbo habito candido fac opus mulierum, hoc est, coque

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Fuga XXIII: Aurum pluit, dum nascitur Pallas Rhodi, et Sol concumbit Veneri

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Fuga XXIV: Regem lupus voravit et vitae crematus reddidit

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Fuga XXV: Draco non moritur, nisi cum fratre et sorore sua interficiatur, qui sunt Sol et Luna

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Fuga XXVI: Sapientiae humanae fructus Lignum vitae est

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Fuga XXVII: Qui Rosarium intrare conatur Philosophicum absque clave, assimilatur homini ambulare volenti absque pedibus

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Fuga XXVIII: Rex balneatur in Laconico sedens, atraque bile liberatur a Pharut

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Fuga XXIX: Ut Salamandra vivit igne sic lapis

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Fuga XXX: Sol indiget Luna, ut gallus gallina

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Fuga XXXI: Rex natans in mari, clamans alta voce: Qui me eripiet, ingens praemium habebit

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Fuga XXXII: Corallus sub aquis ut crescit et aere induratur, sic lapis

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Fuga XXXIII: Hermaphroditus mortuo similis, in tenebris jacens, igne indiget

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Fuga XXXIV: In balneis concipitur, et in aere nascitur, rubeus vero factus graditur super aquas

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Fuga XXXV: Ceres Triptolemum, Thetis Achillem, ut sub igne morari assuefecit, sic artifex lapidem

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Fuga XXXVI: Lapis projectus est in terras, et in montibus exaltatus, et in aere habitat, et in flumine pascitur, id est, Mercurius

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Fuga XXXVII: Tria sufficiunt ad magisterium, fumus albus, hoc est, aqua, leo viridis, id est, aes Hermetis, et aqua foetida

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Fuga XXXVIII: Rebis, ut Hermaphroditus, nascitur ex duobus montibus, Mercurii et Veneris

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Fuga XXXIX: Oedypus Sphynge superata et trucidato Lajo patre matrem ducit in uxorem

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Fuga XL: Ex duabus aquis, fac unam, et erit aqua sanctitatis

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Fuga XLI: Adonis ab apro occiditur, cui Venus accurrens tinxit Rosas sanguine

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Fuga XLII: In Chymicis versanti Natura, Ratio, Esperientia et lectio, sint Dux, scipio, perspicilia et lampas

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Fuga XLIII: Audi loquacem vulturem, qui ne utiquam te decipit

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Fuga XLIV: Dolo Typhon Osyridem trucidat, artusque illius hinc inde dissipat, sed hos collegit Isis inclyta

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Fuga XLV: Sol et ejus umbra perficiunt opus

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Fuga XLVI: Aquilae duae, una ab ortu, altera ab occasu conveniunt

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Fuga XLVII: Lupus ab Oriente et Canis ab Occidente venientes se invicem momorderunt

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Fuga XLVIII: Rex ab aquis potatis morbum, a medicis curatus sanitatem obtinet

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Fuga XLIX: Infans Philosophicus tres agnoscit patres, ut Orion

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Fuga L: Draco mulierem, et haec illum interimit, simulque sanguine perfunduntur

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Atalanta Fugiens is considered by many to be the most beautiful and the most thought-provoking emblem book of all time, with an author in Michael Maier (1568-1622) who was a celebrated alchemist and physician at the court of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. In the final eight years of an eventful and much-travelled life, Maier created a series of illustrated alchemist works, among which Atalanta Fugiens is undoubtedly the most important.

Part of the fascination which this work has aroused stems from its tripartite nature: from a visual perspective with all its engraved emblems, as a musical work comprising 50 compositions, identified as “fugues”, which run through the publication and accompanying the images, and as a purely textual activity in the form of a volume of epigrams and alchemic commentaries. Additionally, Atalanta Fugiens provides part of the backdrop to an understanding of the spiritual Rosicrucian movement which flourished during the first decades of the 17th century, especially in the German principalities.

The musical pieces, of an extremely antiquated nature even for that time, consist of canons in two parts above a cantus firmus; Michael Noone and his Ensemble Plus Ultra perform them in their entirety and in the order in which they appear in the book. What emerges through the centuries across this book is a hypnotic disc, one that is unclassifiable yet extraordinarily evocative.

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8th May 2011

The uppermost lines represent Atalanta and Hippomenes, while the cantus firmus, from a Gregorian plainsong, signifies the apples Hippomenes rolled in Atalanta’s way during their race, enabling him to pass her and win her hand in marriage. Michael Noone employs four well-blended singers, sackbut, Renaissance harp and erhu, the Chinese two-string fiddle.

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