Boethius, Songs of Consolation - Sequentia (with lyrics from manuscripts)

Ensemble: Sequentia
Album: Boethius: Songs of Consolation - Metra from 11th-century Canterbury
Video: Clm 15825, XIth cent. - MS Gg 5 35, XIth cent.
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Imprisoned in Pavia in the early 520s, Boethius could not have anticipated that his final work would become one of the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. The Consolation of Philosophy portrays his struggle to reconcile himself to his fate by exploring the ways of man, the role of Fortune, and the major questions of good and evil. Evidence that the poems of the Consolation were sung in the early Middle Ages survives in the form of musical notation added to over thirty extant manuscripts dating from the ninth through to the beginning of the twelfth century. Through scholarly detective work, the members of Sequentia, together with a Cambridge eminence in the medieval melodic tradition linked to Boethius’ work, Sam Barrett, have been able to produce a convincing reconstruction of this lost repertory. Barrett himself signs the main booklet essay and provides some fascinating insights therein.
from: http://sequentia.org

Evidence suggests that the laments in the sixth century work of Boethius were sung, and this is an attempt at reconstruction, with the help of scholar Sam Barrett. They are based primarily on a fragment from the Cambridge Songs (compiled c.1040), boosted by a rediscovered Canterbury source. The instrumental pieces are unrelated, "reconstructed from a contemporary Anglo-Saxon repertory from neaby Winchester."
The earlier Sequentia program based largely on the same Cambridge Songs source, and featuring previous attempts at reconstructing the Boethius melodies "Lost Songs of the Rhineland Harper" ⤳    • Lost Songs of the Rhineland Harper, X...  
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1 Carmina qui quondam
2 Heu, quam praecipiti
3 Tunc me discussa
4 Quisquis composito
5 O stelliferi conditor
6 Cum Phoebi radiis
7 Nubibus atris
8 Stans a longe (instr.)
9 Si quantas rapidis
10 Tuba (instr.)
11 Bella bis quinis
12 Vaga (instr.)
13 Quid tantos iuvat
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Benjamin Bagby, voice, harps & direction
Hanna Marti, voice & harp
Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes
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