Cocktial Codex

The Ensemble Codex Sanctissima was founded in November 2011 with the purpose of spreading the Medieval and Renaissance music to the most varied audiences, with repertoires primarily selected among the most venerable sources of Christian sacred music, from the liturgical traditions of pre-Gregorian chant dating back to the sixth century, through the earliest forms of polyphony recorded in manuscripts of the ninth and tenth centuries, the works of the School of Notre-Dame and its correlates, the works of the troubadours and trouvères, the periods known as Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova, until the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In this project we aim to also include some Oriental music, as is the case of an Armenian prayer in this first album.

Figures of Harmony: Songs of Codex Chantilly c. 1390 - Ferrara Ensemble, Crawford Young (2015) {4CD Outhere-Arcana A382}
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© 2015 Outhere Music / Arcana | A382
Classical / Medieval / Early Music / Vocal Music / Chamber Music / Instrumental

Presented in a stylish 4-CD box set, here is a comprehensive recording of one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in the history of European music, preserved in the museum at the Château de Chantilly, France. ‘Anything that can be sung, can be written in music notation,’ claimed an anonymous treatise on notation in the late fourteenth century. The harmonies thus ‘captured’ on parchment represent an apex in Western music, associated with the wealthiest courts in Christendom, called ‘decadent’ by some.

Codex 457 - Musik des Mittelalters aus Tirol - Ensemble Peregrina (2017) {Tiroler Landesmuseen CD13029}
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© 2017 Tiroler Landesmuseen | CD13029 / Musikmuseum 30
Classical / Medieval / 14th Century / Polyphony / Chamber Music

The ensemble Peregrina, based in Basel, is dedicated to music of the Middle Ages from Tyrol, whereby songs from the Codex 457 of the UB Innsbruck are the focus. This 14th century source contains experimental polyphonic pieces; The codex originally came from the South Tyrolean monastery Neustift and reached the Karthause Schnals, from there to the UB Innsbruck. The CD offers chorale and early polyphony from this and other Tyrolean manuscripts, sonically fascinating music in the interpretation of an internationally renowned special ensemble.