Catalogue
HAVPCD236 – The Canterbury Pilgrims
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| Disk Title | The Canterbury Pilgrims |
| Music for Chaucer’s Prologue | |
| Choir | Opus Anglicanum |
| Location | Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire |
| Date Recorded | November 1994 |
| Audio Tracks | 34 |
| Trk. | Title | Audio Sample |
| 5 | Thomas gemma Cantuariensis/Thomas cæsus |
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| 16 | Douce dame jolie |
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| 22 | Io son un pellegrin |
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) was brought up as a boy at Court and as a young man saw military service in France. He was a diplomat both in Italy and in France, and later a type of senior civil servant. He read widely in European literature and his most popular work, The Canterbury Tales, displays his experience and learning. It comprises a number of stories told to pass the time during a pilgrimage on horseback from London to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The Prologue to the Tales describes the thirty pilgrims. Opus Anglicanum’s recital interweaves the Prologue with music contemporary with Chaucer, to set the scene, and to complement and illustrate the various characters.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 02:54 | Sumer is icumen in | English 14th c. |
| 2 | 00:55 | Reading: The Prologue, first part | |
| 3 | 01:26 | In Rama sonat gemitus | Anon. 12th c. |
| 4 | 02:32 | Solemne canticum | Sequence for St Thomas |
| 5 | 02:31 | Thomas gemma Cantuariensis/Thomas cæsus | English 14th c. |
| 6 | 01:13 | Reading: The Prologue, second part | |
| 7 | 00:34 | L’homme armé | French 14th c. |
| 8 | 03:17 | Reading: the Knight, the Squire | |
| 9 | 02:09 | Amor mi fa cantar | Italian 14th c. |
| 10 | 03:41 | Dame. de qui toute | Guillaume de Machaut |
| 11 | 01:55 | Alma redemptoris mater | Hermannus Contractus |
| 12 | 02:38 | Reading: the Prioress | |
| 13 | 02:00 | Ave regina cælorum | Lionel Power |
| 14 | 02:29 | Reading: the Monk | |
| 15 | 02:41 | Tosto che l’alba | Ghirardello de Firenze |
| 16 | 02:04 | Douce dame jolie | Guillaume de Machaut |
| 17 | 00:55 | Reading: the Merchant | |
| 18 | 02:02 | Tant doucement | Guillaume de Machaut |
| 19 | 03:07 | Reading: the Clerk, the Franklin | |
| 20 | 02:50 | Vos qui admirimini | Philippe de Vitry |
| 21 | 03:03 | Reading: the Sailor, the Wife of Bath | |
| 22 | 02:41 | Io son un pellegrin | Giovanni da Florentia |
| 23 | 01:30 | Comment qu’a moy | Guillaume de Machaut |
| 24 | 03:49 | Reading: the Priest, the Ploughman | |
| 25 | 01:21 | Beata progenies | Lionel Power |
| 26 | 02:34 | Angelus ad virginem | English 14th c. |
| 27 | 01:20 | Reading: the Miller | |
| 28 | 02:01 | Questa fanciull’ amor | Francesco Landini |
| 29 | 03:05 | Reading: the Pardoner | |
| 30 | 03:39 | Sub Arturo plebs | J. Alanus |
| 31 | 03:58 | Reading: the Host | |
| 32 | 02:42 | Sanctus and Benedictus | English c1375 |
| 33 | 02:18 | Reading: the Journey begins | |
| 34 | 00:52 | Sumer is icumen in | English 14th c. |
Founded in 1988, Opus Anglicanum, five professional singers of the early music movement and a BBC reader, has an expanding and enthusiastic following for its unusual and idiosyncratic programmes of words and music.
