063-30 123  PETER ABELARD: PLANCTUS JEPTHA / PLANCTUS DAVID      THE STUDIO OF EARLY MUSIC / THOMAS BINKLEY

EMI REFLEXE  GERMANY  1974       GATEFOLD SLEEVE       NM / EX+

The Latin term Planctus means laments and around the year 1130 Abelard wrote these 'hymns' - as he called them - for the devotions and the instruction of the nuns of Paraclete.