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Perotin 'Alleluia nativitas'

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Pérotin (circa 1165 - 1220) was a European composer, believed to be French, who lived around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the 13th century. He was the most famous member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony. He was one of very few composers of his day whose name has been preserved, and can be reliably attached to individual compositions; this is due to the testimony of an anonymous English student at Notre Dame known as Anonymous IV, who wrote about him. Anonymous IV called him "Perotin Magister", which means Pérotin the master or expert. The name Pérotin is itself derived from "Perotinus," the Latin diminutive of Petrus, the Latin version of the French name Pierre (just as Léonin comes from "Leoninus," the Latin diminutive of Leo).

ALLELUIA NATIVITAS
The Hilliard Ensemble
Conductor : Paul Hillier

Performer :
David James (Countertenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (Tenor)
John Potter (Tenor)
Paul Hillier (Bass)
Mark Padmore (Tenor)
Charles Daniels [Classical] (Tenor)
Gordon Jones (Baritone)