Versions of Stella Splendens...

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Stella Splendens by Arcana Obscura



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQSqaoj21pU

Stella Splendens by Qntal



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVx3yvemtNE


Stella Splendens by Corvus Corax



...and the "original" Stella Splendens...!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lw8nH6dQIo



More info......and also lists a whole variety of Early Music groups including more experimental ones...



Stella Splendens ("Splendid Star") is a polyphonic song (fol. 21v-22), with two parts voices from the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, one of the oldest extant medieval manuscripts containing music. In modern times it has been recorded by many artists:

• Companyia Elèctrica Dharma & Grallers De L'Acord (album: 20 Anys Electrica Dharma, 1994)
• Ensemble Micrologus: "Stella splendens (ballata)" (album: "in festa", 1995)
• Capilla Musical y Escolanía de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos & Atrium Musicae de Madrid, directed by Luis Lozano & Gregorio Paniagua (album: Canto antiguo Español, 1994)
• Qntal (album Illuminate, 2004)
• Adaro (album: Stella splendens, 1997)
• Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI (album Llibre Vermell de Montserrat - siglo XIV, 1978)
• Psalteria (album: Scalerica d'oro, 2001)
• Schola Gregoriana Mediolanensis (album: Ad cantica)
• Estampie (album Ave maris stella, 1991)
• Novalia (album: Canti e briganti, 1997)
• Daniele Sepe (album: Kronomakia, 2008)
• The New London Consort, directed by Philip Pickett (album : Llibre vermell, pilgrim songs & dances, 1992)
• Studio der Frühen Musik directed by Thomas Binkley (album Secular music c1300, 1998)
• Cornix Maledictum (album: Mariage en noir, 2004)
• In Extremo (album Weckt Die Toten!, 1998)
• Saltatio Mortis (album Marktmusik des Mittelalters, Die Erste, 2003)
• Corvus Corax (album: Tritonus, 1995)
• Vox Vulgaris (album: The Shape of Medieval Music to Come, 2003)
• Hughes de Courson (album: Lux Obscura: Un Projet Electro-Medieval, 2003)
• Arcana Obscura (album Aderlass vol.5, 2007)
• Barco Brena (album: The celts on the organ, 2004)
• Choeur de Chambre de Namur (album:Llibre Vermell)
• Blackmore's Night (as "Locked Within the Crystal Ball"; album Secret Voyage, 2008)
• Corona Borealis (album Cantus Paganus, 2000)
• Luc Arbogast (album Aux portes de Sananda, 2009)