Ordo Virtutum

Ordo Virtutum

For centuries, monks sang a single melody. Until someone dared to add a second. Thus, around the year 1000, a new phenomenon emerged: the organum. What begins as a shadow voice grows into a sophisticated polyphonic art form that leaves all of Europe perplexed. Ordo Virtutum follows this revolutionary development from the monasteries around Lake Constance to Chartres, Santiago, and Notre-Dame in Paris.

Programme

• St. Gall, Reichenau: 9th-12th century

• Notker Balbulus

  Sequence: Sancti spiritus

  c840-912
• Anonymous

  Sequence: Pangat ymnum Augiensis            
  Sequence: Sancti martyris festum

• Chartres: c1000

• Organum

  Alleluia: Multifarie olim                           
  Responsorium: Petre amas me?                                
  Alleluia: Video celos apertos

• Santiago de Compostella: 12th century

• Anonymous

  Kyrie: Rex immense                                                             
  Conductus: Congaudeant catholici    
  Conductus: Iocundetur
  (from: Codex Calixtinus, Santiago de Compostella 12th century)

  12th century

• Notre Dame de Paris: c1200

• Philippe le Chancelier

  Conductus: Dic Christi veritas 

  1165-1236
• Leoninus

  Organum: Viderunt omnes 

  1150-c1201
• Manfred Barbarini Lupus

  Missa in festo Sancti Galli
  Sanctus
  Agnus Dei
  
  Programme subject to change

  fl. 1557-1561

Musicians

• Hubert Mayer, Philipp Nicklaus, Jörg Rieger, Csongor Szántó voice
• Stefan Johannes Morent musical direction, voice