Listen to examples of The Clerks’ repertoire below.
All recordings have been made as ‘live’; with little or no editing involved.
EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC
Three works from the Early English Church Music editions, recorded as part of a long-term collaboration between EECM and The Clerks/Cambridge Early Music Consort. Most of this repertoire is transmitted anonymously in continental manuscripts, but has been identified as English through the scholarly endeavours of the late Peter Wright. All the examples here are for three voices, and bear witness to the sonorous quality of English music from the 15th century.
CREDO ‘OMNI TEMPORE’ – Anon
English Church Music, vol 55 no 8
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich, fol. 159′ & 162
SANCTUS – ‘Bloym’
Early English Church Music, vol 47 no 24
Trent 87, fol. 20′-21′
AGNUS DEI – Anon
Early English Church Music, vol. 47 no 18
Aosta, fol. 216′-217
CREDO – ‘de Anglia’
Early English Church Music vol. 55 no 12
Aosta fol. 142′-144
THE MELLON CHANSONNIER
Dating from the 1470s, the Mellon Chansonnier is one of the most significant sources of English, French and Italian song from the later 15th century. Its clean and elegant appearance lends itself to practical performance, and the singers on these recordings worked directly from a facsimile of the chansonnier.
Fortune par ta cruault̩ РVincenet
Jacqueline s’i attende – Busnois
