Almisonis Melos
Latin motets and mass fragments in the Ivrea Codex


Laura Fabris (soprano)
Elisa Franzetti (soprano)
Fabio Furnari (tenor)
Giuseppe Maletto (tenor)
Marco Scavazza (baritone)
Svetlana Fomina (vielle)
Efix Puleo (vielle)
Marta Graziolino (harp)
Guido Magnano (organ)
Andrea Primiani (dulcian, sackbut)
Mauro Morini (slide trumpet)


Cantica Symphonia
Giuseppe Maleto - conductor


Compiled at the end of the 14th Century for the Ivrea Cathedral, this Codex is one of the most important sources of French music from the French Ars Nova. Of the 87 pieces that are contained in the codex, 20 have been recorded here in Latin - extracts from masses, sacred and profane motets. The diversity and infinite polyphonic sublety of these miniatures by Guillaume de Mauchat and his contemporaries figure at the summit of the art of the early Middle Ages.



01. Philippe de Vitry - Vos qui admiramini 3:00
02. Chipre - Kyrie 5:26
03. Baralipton - Gloria 4:09
04. Anonimo - Credo 3:31
05. Anonimo - Sanctus - Sanans fragilia 4:17
06. Guillaume de Machaut - Martirum gemma 3:53
07. Philippe de Vitry - Impudenter circumivi 3:10
08. Anonimo - Rachel plorat filios 2:45
09. Anonimo - Kyrie - Rex angelicorum 4:12
10. Anonimo - Gloria - Spiritus et alme 6:34
11. Anonimo - Credo 6:06
12. Anonimo - Sanctus 3:31
13. Anonimo - Almisonis melos cum vocibus 4:21
14. Anonimo - Post missarum sollemnia 3:03
15. Anonimo - In virtute nominum 3:04
16. Anonimo - Febus mundo oriens 2:53

Total Time: 64' 29