Ciconia: Motets

Sidus Preclarum
Ciconia: Complete Motets
Mala Punica - Pedro Memelsdorff
Erato 3984-21661

Contents:

  1. O virum omnimoda / O lux et decus / O beate Nicholaë
  2. O felix templum jubila
  3. Venecie mundi splendor / Michael qui Stena domus / Italie
  4. Albane, misse celitus (instrumental)
  5. Petrum Marcello Venetum / O Petre, antistes inclite
  6. Introitus: Dicit Dominus Petro (chant)
  7. O Petre Christi discipule
  8. Ut te per omnes / Ingens alumnus Padue
  9. O beatum incendium
  10. O Padua sidus preclarum
  11. Alleluia (chant)
  12. Albane, misse celitus / Albane, doctor maxime
  13. Alleluia: Franciscus pauper (chant)
  14. Doctorum principem / Melodia suavissima
  15. Padu ... serenans (instrumental)

Performers: Sabine Lutzenberger (soprano), Tina Aagaard (soprano, organ), Lavinia Bertotti (soprano), Barbara Zanichelli (soprano), Daniela del Monaco (alto), Fernanda Piccini (alto), Ernesta Scabini (alto), Alessandro Carmignani (countertenor), Pascal Bertin (countertenor), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor, organ), Hèctor Rodríguez (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone), Mara Galassi (harp), Roberto Falcone (fiddle), Kees Boeke (fiddle, psaltery), Claudia Pasetto (fiddle), Christophe Deslignes (portative organ), Alberto Macchini (bells), Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder), Luca Bonvini (slide trumpet), Felix Stricker (slide trumpet)

Playing time: 53'

Recording date: November 1997 (Italy)

Compilation reissue: Erato 84925 Italie Gothique (3 CDs)

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Todd M. McComb