Liber evangeliorum / Otfrid von Weissenburg.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Ensemble Officium, performer.

Contributor:

Rombach, Wilfried, conductor.

Language:

English

French

German

German, Old High (ca. 750-1050)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Advent music.

Christmas music.

Gregorian chants.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Subtitle on container: Dichtung und Musik aus der Zeit Karls des Grossen

Poetry and music from the age of Charlemagne

Poesie et musique au temps de Charlemagne

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Christophorus, [2006]

Language Note:

Sung in Latin; spoken parts in Old High German.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Invocatio : Wola drútin mín (1:30)

Invitatorium : Præoccupemus faciem Domini (9:18)

Hymnus : Vox clara ecco intonat (2:03)

Lectio I : Thiz sint búah frono (3:00)

Responsorium : Aspiciens a longe (7:30)

Lectio II : Ward áfter thiu irscritan sár (2:50)

Responsorium : Sancta et immaculata virginitas (2:33)

Responsorium : Suscipe verbum Virgo Maria (2:49)

Lectio III : Fûar tho sancta Mária ; Thó sprah sancta Mária (3:36)

Responsorium : Beatam me dicent omnes generationes

Responsorium : Ecce apparebit Dominus (2:42)

Hymnus : Veni redemptor gentium (3:10)

Lectio IV : Wúntar ward tho máraz (1:41)

Responsorium : O magnum mysterium (3:29)

Responsorium : Beata Dei genitrix (2:05)

Lecto V : Tho wárun thar in lánte (2:16)

Responsorium : Hodie nobis cœlorum rex (3:40)

Responsorium : Verbum caro factum est (4:48)

Lectio VI : Thar was ein mán alter (2:14)

Responsorium : Adorna thalamum tuum sion (4:48)

Oratio : Giwérdo uns geban drúhtin (2:58)

Antiphona : Alma redemptoris mater (1:53).

Participant:

Ensemble Officium ; Wilfried Rombach, conductor.

Notes:

Readings relating to the Christmas story from Monk Otfrid's Liber Evangeliorum variously, with Gregorian chants from a St. Gallen manuscript.

Recorded June 13-14, 2005, Ev. Kirche Gönningen.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English, French, and German, and text with German translation (31 p. : facsim., ill.) inserted in container.

Contains:

Otfrid, von Weissenburg, active 9th century. Evangeliorum liber. Selections.

OCLC:

86175350

Publisher Number:

675754959920

CHR 77279 Christophorus