[ Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 4 August 2023
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This recording takes us on a fantasy choral journey using the traditional services of Vespers and Benediction as its guide. It weaves hypnotic plainchant around renaissance gems and modern masterpieces. The music of the great Renaissance masters, Palestrina, Guerrero and Anerio sit alongside distinctive voices from the twenty-first century: James MacMIllan, Julian Anderson, John Joubert, Sven-David Sandström and Matthew Martin.
Suzi Digby
OBE Hon DMus
1. Anonymous - 01 - 01 - [Bells]
2. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - 01 - 02 - Assumpta est Maria (a)
3. Anonymous - 01 - 03 - Deus in adjutorium
4. Anonymous - 01 - 04 - Assumpta est Maria in cælum
5. David Bednall - 01 - 05 - Assumpta est Maria (b)
6. Anonymous - 01 - 06 - Dixit Dominus
7. Anonymous - 01 - 07 - Assumpta est Maria (c)
8. Anonymous - 01 - 08 - Maria Virgo assumpta est
9. Olivier Tarney - 01 - 09 - In Homeward Flight
10. Anonymous - 01 - 10 - Laudate pueri
11. Anonymous - 01 - 11 - Maria Virgo assumpta est (reprise)
12. Anonymous - 01 - 12 - In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus
13. John Joubert - 01 - 13 - Reflection on the plainchant antiphon "In odorem"
14. Anonymous - 01 - 14 - Lætatus sum
15. Anonymous - 01 - 15 - In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus (reprise)
16. Anonymous - 01 - 16 - Benedicta filia tua Domino
17. Giles Swayne - 01 - 17 - Benedicta filia
18. Anonymous - 01 - 18 - Nisi Dominus
19. Anonymous - 01 - 19 - Benedicta filia tua Domino (reprise)
20. Anonymous - 01 - 20 - Pulchra es et decora filia Jerusalem
21. Kim Porter - 01 - 21 - Pulchra es et decora
22. Anonymous - 01 - 22 - Lauda Jerusalem Dominum
23. Anonymous - 01 - 23 - Pulchra es et decora, filia Jerusalem (reprise)
24. Anonymous - 01 - 24 - Ave Maris Stella (a)
25. James MacMillan - 01 - 25 - Ave Maris Stella (b)
26. Anonymous - 02 - 01 - Exaltata est
27. Anonymous - 02 - 02 - Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit
28. Julian Anderson - 02 - 03 - Magnificat
29. Anonymous - 02 - 04 - Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit (reprise)
30. Anonymous - 02 - 05 - Benedicamus Domino
31. Sven-David Sandström - 02 - 06 - O salutaris hostia
32. Francisco Guerrero - 02 - 07 - Ave Virgo sanctissima
33. Martin Matthew - 02 - 08 - Sanctissima
34. Sven-David Sandström - 02 - 09 - Tantum ergo
35. Anonymous - 02 - 10 - Adoremus
36. Anonymous - 02 - 11 - Ave Regina cælorum (a)
37. Felice Anerio - 02 - 12 - Ave Regina cælorum (b)