Sanans fragilia - Anon/Ivrea
Kyrie - 'Chipre'/Ivrea
Et verus homo - Anon/Ivrea
Dame/Fins cuers doulz - Machaut
Trop plus est bele/Biaute paree de valour - Machaut
Lasse!/Se j'aim mon loyal ami - Machaut
Credo - Anon/Ivrea
Tu qui gregem/Plange, regni respublica - Machaut
Christe qui lux/Veni creator spiritus - Machaut
Felix virgo/Inviolata genitrix - Machaut
Sanctus - Anon/Ivrea
Clap, clap/Sus Robin - Anon/Ivrea
Qui es promesse/Ha! Fortune - Machaut
Martyrum/Diligenter inquiramus - Machaut
Amours/Faus samblant - Machaut
Post missarum sollempnia/Post misse modulamina - Anon/Ivrea

Signum is delighted to announce the debut disc of the Gramophone Award winning Clerks' Group on Signum Records.

This disc is a programme of 14th-century motets and mass movements represents two of the most important sources of French medieval music.

The Ivrea Codex now lives in the Chapter library of the cathedral of Ivrea, a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps, south of the modern ski resort of Aosta (home to an important 15th-century music manuscript). This may seem an unexpected area in which to find major sources of medieval music, but in fact the position of these towns on one of the main routes across the Alps between France and Italy readily explains their importance in the Middle Ages. They lay on roads that linked centres of power, and accordingly they grew in importance themselves, sustaining cathedrals with musical traditions that provided a natural home for collections of sophisticated polyphony.