Morales: Assumption Mass

Morales: Assumption Mass
Orchestra of the Renaissance
Glossa 921404

Contents:

  1. Cristóbal de Morales: Exaltata est Sancta Dei Genitrix
  2. Bernardino de Ribera: Beata Mater
  3. Antonio de Cabezón: Tiento sobre el hymno "Ave maris stella"
  4. Andrés de Torrentes: Asperges me
  5. Introitus: Gaudeamus omnes (plainchant)
  6. Morales: Kyrie (Missa Benedicta es regina caelorum)
  7. Morales: Gloria (Missa Benedicta es regina caelorum)
  8. Oratio (plainchant)
  9. Graduale: Propter veritatem (plainchant)
    Alleluia: Assumpta est Maria (plainchant)
  10. Morales: Credo (Missa Benedicta es regina caelorum)
  11. Offertorium: Assumpta est Maria (plainchant)
  12. Francisco Guerrero: Ave Maria
  13. Prefacio (plainchant)
  14. Morales: Sanctus (Missa Benedicta es regina caelorum)
  15. Guerrero: Dulcissima Maria
  16. Pater noster (plainchant)
  17. Morales: Agnus Dei (Missa Benedicta es regina caelorum)
  18. Communio: Optimam partem (plainchant)
  19. Rodrigo de Ceballos: O pretiosum et admirabile sacramentum
  20. Postcommunio (plainchant)
  21. Cabezón: Beata viscera Mariae Virginis
  22. Morales: Ave regina caelorum

Performers: Josep Cabré (solo plainchants); William Missin, Fergus McLusky (countertenor); Christopher Watson, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Simon Davies, Philip Cave (tenor); Donald Grieg, Charles Gibbs (bass); Fiona Russel (cornett); Beatrice Delpierre (soprano & alto shawm); William Lyons (alto shawm); Francis Mercet (tenor shawm); Richard Cheetham (tenor sackbut, director); Patrick Jackman (bass sackbut); Kate Van Orden (dulcian); Siobhán Armstrong (harp); Alastair Ross (organ); Michael Noone (guest conductor)

Playing time: 76'05

Recording date: July 1999 (polyphony) and August 2000 (solo plainchants)

Morales's mass based on Mouton's Benedicta es regina caelorum serves as the centerpiece for a reconstruction of a mass celebration for Assumption Day (August 15) as it might have been celebrated at Toledo Cathedral, c.1580. Many of the items (including the version of the Morales mass presented here) were edited from Toledo manuscripts.

Another Morales recording by a related ensemble:

Morales en Toledo
Polifonia inédita del Códice 25 (1545-1547)
Ensemble Plus Ultra - Michael Noone
Glossa 922001

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Ted Dumitrescu