Morales: Missa Mille regretz

Morales: Mass for Feast of St. Isidore of Seville
Gabrieli Consort & Players - Paul McCreesh
Archiv 449 143
Archiv "Blue" 474 228
Brilliant 93904

Contents:

  1. Guerrero: Cançión à 6 (2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, 2 dulcians)
  2. Rogier: Cançión "Ecce sacerdos magnus" à 5 (5 recorders)
  3. Rogier: Cançión à 6 (2 cornets, 2 shawms, 2 sackbuts)
  4. Cabezón: Tiento del quinto tono (organ)
  5. Introitus - In medio ecclesiae (chant choir, dulcian)
  6. Morales: Missa "Mille regretz" Kyrie (choir à 6, dulcian)
  7. Morales: Gloria (choir à 6, dulcian)
  8. Oratio - Dominus vobiscum... Deus, qui populo tuo (chant choir, dulcian)
  9. Cabezón: Tiento del quarto tono (organ)
  10. Epistola - Lectio Epistolae beati Pauli Apostoli ad Timotheum (solo chant)
  11. Guerrero: Cançión "Subiendo amor" à 5 (4 shawms, sackbut)
  12. Guerrero: Cançión "Todos aman" à 5 (4 shawms, sackbut)
  13. Evangelium - Dominus vobiscum... Sequentia sancti Evangeli secundum Matthaeum (chant choir, dulcian)
  14. Morales: Credo (choir à 6, dulcian)
  15. Cabezón: Tiento del octavo tono (organ)
  16. Guerrero: O Doctor optime (choir à 6, 2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, 2 dulcians)
  17. Prefatio - Per omnia saecula saeculorum... Vere dignum et justum est... (chant choir, dulcian)
  18. Morales: Sanctus (choir à 6, dulcian)
  19. Gombert: Mille regretz à 6 (2 cornets, 2 sackbuts, 2 dulcians)
  20. Pater Noster - Per omnia saecula saeculorum (chant choir, dulcian)
  21. Morales: Agnus Dei (choir à 6, dulcian)
  22. Communio - Fidelis servus et prudens (chant choir, dulcian)
  23. Postcommunio - Dominus vobiscum... Ut nobis, Domine (chant choir, dulcian)
  24. Ite missa est - Deo gratis (chant choir, dulcian)
  25. Rogier: Cançión à 6 (2 cornets, 2 shawms, 2 sackbuts)
  26. Santa María: Del modo de tañer a corcheas (organ)
  27. Morales: Emendemus in melius (choir à 5)

Performers: Robert Harre-Jones, Andrew Watts, Angus Davidson, Malcolm Smith (altos); Julian Podger, Gerard O'Beirne, Tom Phillips, Robert Horn (tenors); Charles Pott, Robert Evans (baritones); Julian Clarkson, Simon Grant, Richard Savage (basses); Steven Harrold, Angus Smith, Nicholas Smith, Charles Pott, Alastair Hamilton, Henry Wickham, Laurence Whitehead, Julian Clarkson, Robert McDonald (chant choir); Jeremy West (cornet), William Lyons (dulcian, shawm, recorder), Douglas Kirk (cornet, shawm, recorder), Dan Stillman (sackbut, shawm, recorder), Mack Ramsey (sackbut, recorder), Keith McGowan (dulcian, shawm, recorder), Timothy Roberts (organ)

Playing time: 76'

Recording date: June & October 1995

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.) 33/5-345 (May/June 2010)

This recording is centered around Morales' Missa Mille regretz, with various other polyphonic & chant movements to make a full service, including the entry & exit portions.

Other composers represented are Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), Philippe Rogier (c.1561-1596), Antonio de Cabezón (1510-1566), Nicolas Gombert (c.1495-c.1560), and Tomás de Santa María (d.1570)

A recording devoted to Rogier:

Un office de mariage à la Cour d'Espagne
Rogier: Missa tribus choribus Domine Dominus noster
Choeur de Chambre de Namur / La Fenice / Ricercar Consort / Doulce Mémoire - Jean Tubéry
Ricercar 206152

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Todd M. McComb