Las Huelgas Codex, Vol. 1

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 17, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anonymous
    • PERFORMER
      Armoniosoincanto, Franco Radicchia, Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino, Enrico Miaroma, Gruppo Vocale Gard
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 17, 2025
    • UPC
      5028421966199
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96619
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Kyrie, rex virginum [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    2. Conditor kyrie [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    3. Kyrie, fons bonitatis [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    4. Kyrie eleison [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    5. Kyrie eleison [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    6. Gloria in excelsis, spiritus et alme [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    7. Benedicta et venerabilis, virgo dei genitrix [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    8. Iam nubes dissolvitur - Iam novum sydus oritur - Solem [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    9. Ave verum corpus - Ave, vera caro Christi [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    10. Ave gloriosa - Salve, virgo regia mater [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    11. Celi solem imitantes [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    12. Confessorum agonia modulata symphonia [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    13. Virgines egregie, virgines sacrate [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    14. Iocundare plebs fidelis [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    15. Salve porta regem gloriae - Salve salus gencium - Salve sancta parens

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Armoniosoincanto

      Conductor: Franco Radicchia

    16. Verbum bonum et suave personemus illud ave ff [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    17. Flavit auster flatu [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    18. Angelorum laude digna, virgo [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    19. Eterni numinis [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    20. Salve, sancta Christi parens, salve, virgo - Salve, virgo singularis, salvatorem [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    21. Eya mater fidelium - Ave regina gloriae [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    22. In virgulto gratie arbor pudiciti - Circumsepta surculus exornatur flosculus [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    23. Stabat juxta Christi crucem [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    24. Promereris summe laudis tu que Deum - Nam, ut Gabrielem audis te salvantem [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    25. Nobis cedunt vetera [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma

    26. Maria, virgo virginum, ora pro nobis - Fundamentum ecclesiae, fons ipsa sapientie [Codex Las Huelgas, Spain, 13th-14th centuries]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino

      Conductor: Enrico Miaroma


One of the most important sources to be copied in the 14th century, the Codex of Las Huelgas is an anthology of chants from the 13th century that are prime examples of the Ars Antiqua. It includes many original pieces, as well as some that can be found elsewhere in various Spanish sources, and others that originally came from the Notre-Dame school. Two specialist Italian vocal groups share in the epic project of recording the entire Codex, with these two discs constituting the first instalment.

The performing styles of Armoniosoincanto and the Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino are tonally different but share similarities in their approach to interpreting the various pieces. The young voices of the Gruppo Vocale Garda Trentino offer a luminosity and a rhythmic effect that creates a brilliant, precise vocal quality, always expressive and communicative. Armoniosoincanto presents interpretative impulses that are more reflective and controlled – partly in response to the texts, and partly due to the group’s vocal timbre, which is more mature in certain respects. That is not to say that this timbre is any less brilliant where required, nor any less mellow in the psalmodic formulations.

These performances are based on the transcriptions published by the Codex’s first editor, Higinio Anglès, in El CoÌdex Musical de Las Huelgas (Muìsica a veus dels segles XIII–XIV) (1931) and on Juan Carlos Asensio’s work El Códice Polifonico de Las Huelgas: aspectos codicológicos y notacionales – La Música en el Monasterio de Las Huelgas en tiempos de su Códice Polifònico (Editorial Apuerto, 2001).