GREGORIAN CHANT: Mater Dulcissima (Marie mere de Dieu) - Maitrise Notre-Dame de Paris-Ensemble Gregorien

Entirely devoted to the Virgin Mary, this programme reflects a tradition of sacred music which is very much kept alive at Notre-Dame de Paris.
Various forms of Gregorian chant (response Vidi speciosam, tropes, Introït Gaudeamus or prose Hallelujah, Hodie), polyphonies (sequence Verbum Bonum and versus Præconia virginis) and a monody (liturgical drama In Annontiatione) contribute to the glorification and praise of the Mother of God and her Assumption.
This programme bears testimony to the musical and religious world from which was to emerge, in this cathedral, the very first school of Western polyphony.

Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris
Sylvain Dieudonné, direction

Anonyme
1.    Praeconia Virginis    4'17
2.    Vocibus... Gaudeamus    9'50
3.    Mittit ad Virginem    2'55
4.    In Annuntiatione    8'05
5.    Gaude Maria Virgo    5'51
6.    Verbum Bonum    2'41
7.    Ave Maria    5'55
8.    Vidi Speciosam    3'10
9.    Alleluia-Assumpta est Maria    7'59
10.    Salve Regina    3'13