Now Make We Merthe - Medieval English Lyrics, Roundsand Carols by The Purcell Consort of Voices

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Ensemble: The Purcell Consort of Voices - Grayston Burgess, dir.
Frank Harrison, Eric Dobson, Don Smithers, David Munrow
Album: Now Make We Merthe
Video: MS 2 B VII, XIV secolo

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As you have certainly noticed, in the last few weeks I have been focusing my musical research on the first ensembles which in the 1950s and 1960s began to study and perform medieval and early music.Those were years in which it was not easy to be able to access archives and ancient manuscripts, not to mention the total lack of musical instruments necessary to hypothetically reconstruct the "original" sound. Yet these early music pioneers with enormous effort reconstructed the first rediscovered melodies by performing them with newly made instruments for the first time in centuries."Now make we merthe" is a beautiful album by the "Boston Skyline" label for its "From the Vault" series which, as I read from the booklet, had the goal of re-release works from the 50s and 60s to make them available again when otherwise would've been forgotten.In this publication we find excerpts from three works that go from '62 to '67: the tracks from 1 to 12 come from "Medieval English Lyrics" conducted by the great Frank Ll. Harrison & Eric J. Dobson; 14 to 24 are taken from "Now make we merthe", conducted by Graystone Burgess; finally tracks 13, 25 and 26 come from "Music of the waits", conducted by Don Smithers.These stupendous works see the participation of musicians of the highest level, as already mentioned, among the first to bravely venture into this world of medieval musical rediscovery. You can find them all mentioned down here, but to name a few: Gerald English, Grayston Burgess, David Munrow, Don Smithers, John Sothcott, Michael Morrow...

The video I made includes a selection of images from the wonderful Queen Mary Psalter, an English manuscript from around 1310. I thought it was the best choice not only for the place of realization and for the beauty of the images full of scenes of common life, but also for the numerous references to music involving figures of different social classes including monks and nuns in the act of playing citoles, harps etc... in defiance of those who have not noticed the incredible number of musical instruments frescoed in the churches and still mistakenly believe that these monks and nuns shunned instrumental music and musical instruments, considering them impure compared to the voice. Another cliché about the Middle Ages that needs to be debunked.

I wish you happy listening!
Mirko Virginio Volpe
MUSICA MEDIEVALE
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1 Perspice christicola: Sumer is icumen in, c.1240
2 Foweles in the firth
3 Edi be thu, c.1280
4 Sainte Marie Virgine - St. Godric, 1170
5 Miri it is, c.1220
6 Gabriel from heven-king, c.1290
7 Stod wel,moder, c.1280
8 Nowel, nowel: Owt of your sleep, c.1430
9 Deo gracias Anglia: Owr king went forth, c.1420
10 Pray for us, thou Price of Pes, c.1460
11 Go hert, hurt with adversitee, c.1450
12 This day day daws - Sir Thomas Phillips, c.1500
13 A maske - Giles Farnaby, c.1590
14 Lux hodie: Orientis partibus, 13th c.
15 Resonemus laudibus, 14th c.
16 Verbum caro: In hoc anni circulo, 15th c.
17 Verbum patris hodie, 12th c.
18 Lullay, lullow: I saw a sweete, 14th c.
19 Fulget hodie de l'espine, 14th c.
20 Nowell: The: borys hede, 15th c.
21 Verbum patris humanatur, 12th c.
22 Conditor fut le non-pareil, c.1520
23 Nowell: Dieus vous garde - Richard Smert, mid 15th century
24 Riu, riu, chiu: El lobo rabioso, c. 1556
25 Saltavan Ninfe - Orazio Vecchi, c.1585
26 Almande "Est-ce Mars", c. 1560
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Performers:
[1]-[12] Countertenor: Grayston Burgess, John Whitworth. Tenor: Gerald English, Robert Tear. Baritone: John Frost. Bass: Owen Grundy. Treble: Robin Stenham. Harp, Voice: Osian Ellis. Plectrum lute and Guitar: Desmond Dupre. Psaltery: Joan Rimmer. Recorder: Christoher Taylor. Viola: Christopher Wellington

[13] [25] [26] Recorder, Crumhorn: David Munrow, Bernard Thomas, Michael Oxenham, Don Smithers. Recorder: John Sothcott, Francis Grubb. Crumhorn: Tess Miller. Crumhorn, Rackett, Tenor Curtal, Shawm: Michael Morrow

[14]-[24] The Purcell Consort of Voices - Counter Tenor: Grayston Burgess. Tenors:Ian Partridge, John Buttrey. Bass: Geoffrey Shaw, Christopher Keyte. Treble,:Stephen Borton, Paul Copcutt. London Brass Ensemble: Organ: Simon Preston. Oboe: Michael Dobson. Heklephone: James MacGillavray. Harp: Osian Ellis. Psaltery: Joan Rimmer. Lute: Robert Spencer. Boys of All Saints: Margaret Street, Michael Flemming, choirmaster - Grayston Burgess, dir.
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