Notker Balbulus: Liber ymnorum was released in 2025 on the Naxos label, world's largest classical music label. The collection of early musical sequences highlights an array of feasts and saints with illuminating texts developed by the famous Benedictine monk from St. Gall. Known as 'the Stammerer,' Notker devised this ingenius liturgical poetry as an aid to holding extensive wordless melodies within the mind and memory. Anya Wilkening writes: "The performers prioritize clarity, with most tracks sung by soloists. Though simple, this allows the music to shine: the architecture of the repeating phrases is audible, as is Notker’s reuse of smaller melodic gestures… This program rewards careful listening, which brings these details (and thus, the craft of Notker and the musicians of the Schola Antiqua of Chicago) into sharp relief." American Record Guide (July 2025)

 

Schola Antiqua's Missa Conceptio tua recording was released on the Naxos label in 2014. This album features the world premiere of Pierre de la Rue's Missa Conceptio tua, a mass quite popular in early sixteenth-century court circles, written for five parts and for very low voices. This music is complemented by seven chants on the CD for female voices, the O Antiphons. Completing the recording are the seasonal plainchant Alma redemptoris mater and three delightful fifteenth-century English carols that tell of Christ's coming. The album is available for download or hard copy. Three other recordings by Schola Antiqua can be found on the Discantus label.