Conductus III
Professor Mark Everist has been leading the ‘Cantum pulcriorem invenire’ (CPI) project at the University of Southampton since 2010; it has brought to life the repertory of twelfth- and thirteenth-century poetry and music – known as the conductus – through research, performance and recording. In addition to Everist’s monograph for Cambridge University Press entitled Discovering Song: Thirteenth-Century Latin Poetry and Music, and an open-access online database of the entire repertory, members of the project team have been performing and recording the repertory in the UK and Europe.
![The CD](http://blog.soton.ac.uk/music/files/2016/01/ConductusIII.png)
In addition to performing the repertory of the conductus, the CPI artists, John Potter, Rogers Covey-Crump and Christopher O’Gorman, under the direction of Mark Everist, have recorded three CDs for Hyperion Records. The third and final recording – Conductus III – has just been released. Like the previous two recordings, it contains a range of conducti for one, two and three voices, for the most part not performed for around 750 years. The project has created a total of 45 recordings of the conductus.
![The singers: John Potter, Rogers Covey-Crump and Christopher O’Gorman](http://blog.soton.ac.uk/music/files/2016/01/10549022_424557061035132_7217227482103898101_o.jpg)
Hyperion have preleased a rather nice mash-up of the CD on YouTube. It’s at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rhn4SjPHmc.
John Potter has already written a blog about the new CD, the process of recording and the music we perform:
http://www.john-potter.co.uk/blog/2016/01/29/conductus-3-released/.
Mark Everist
![Mark Everist](http://blog.soton.ac.uk/music/files/2016/01/MarkEverist.jpeg)