Conductus 2: Music & Poetry from thirteenth-century France

John Potter (tenor), Christopher O'Gorman (tenor) & Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)

Music & poetry from thirteenth-century France

A second volume of music from the Conductus repertory—the least-known genre of medieval music, the ‘poor relation’ of organum and motets—performed by three singers who combine expert knowledge of the music with voices of unearthly beauty. This album contains poems set to music from thirteenth-century England and France. The subjects range from straightforward exhortations to the Virgin Mary to criticisms of the Papal Curia and a depiction of the student riots in Orléans in 1236.

Anonymous:
 Bulla fulminante
 Ave, virga decoris incliti
 Celorum porta
 Quid ultra tibi facere
 Gaude, virgo virginum
 Veste nuptiali
 Ave, tuos benedic
 Ave Maria salus hominum
 Dic, Christi veritas
 Excutere de pulvere
 Librum clausum et signatum
 Aurelianis civitas
 Naturas Deus regulis

"Spreading these different performances across the disc makes for a varied musical experience while leaving the opportunity for listeners who want to study more to compare the versions more directly."
Gramophone Magazine - February 2014

"An utterly arresting glimpse on a world that seems so utterly alien to ours as to render it truly sacred."
International Record Review - March 2014