Adoration and Revelation

Adoration and Revelation
400 years of music in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Apocalypse
Nova Cantica - Maria Silvia Roveri
Newton Classics 8802145 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD 1
    Revelation
    Apocalypse texts and medieval music
  1. Prologue: Mille anni (vocal & instrumental improvisation on the text of Psalm 90)
  2. Revelation of the end of the world: Canto della Sibilla (text by St. Augustine)
  3. Despair: L'acqua mi giunge fino alla gola (improvisation on the text of Psalms 69 & 88)
  4. A voice: Audivi vocem (Antiphon [GT 689] from the Book of Revelation 14:13)
  5. The Lamb: Ergo agnus veri
  6. Knowledge: C'è un tempo per nascere e un tempo per morire (text from Ecclesiastes 3.2-8)
  7. De facili contempnit omnia: Propositum quidem negocii (motet, Bamberg Monastery, 13th century)
  8. The power: Sederunt principes (organum by Perotin, 12th-13th century, Wolfenbüttel Monastery)
  9. The Seven Seals: È venuto il tempo di distruggere coloro che distruggono la terra (Book of Revelation, Ch. 11)
  10. When the first seal opened: Mundus a munditia (improvisation on the text from Revelation 6:8 with drums; conductus, Monastery of Notre Dame, 13th century)
  11. The Angel: Stetit angelus (offertory [GT 610]; text from Revelation 8:3-4)
  12. The Seven Trumpets: Quando suonò la prima tromba - Homo luge! Homo miserabilis - Brumas e mors (improvisation on the text from Revelation 8:9 with drums; motet from the Bamberg Monastery
  13. The Angel swung his sickle (Revelation 14)
  14. The Lady: Signum magnum (introit [GT 590]; Revelation 12:1)
  15. The final battle: Clama, ne cesses, Syon filia - Alleluia (motet, Las Huelgas Monastery)
  16. The hypocrites' false popes: Ypocrite pseudopontifices - Velut stelle (Italian translation of the motet with improvisation)
  17. Invocation: Rex tremendae - In perhenni - Un nuovo Cielo, una nuova Terra (motet, Bamberg Monastery)
  18. Chi mi darà ali come di colomba? (Psalm 55)
  19. O gloriosissimi, lux vivens, Angeli (antiphon, Hildegard von Bingen, 1098-1179)
  20. Holy people: Non avranno più fame (instrumental & vocal improvisation on text from St. Martial Monastery, Limoges, 12th century; Revelation 7-22)
    CD 2
    Ave Gloriosa Mater
    13th- and 14th-century religious music in Northern Italy
  1. In honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Ave Regina - Mater Innocencie (motet, Marchetto da Padova, c.1325)
  2. Nativity of Mary: Ave Gloriosa Mater Salvatoris (trope, Cividale Monastery, no. 56)
  3. Annunciation: Officium annuntiationis Sancte marie (from the Monastery Santa Maria della Fava, Venice)
  4. Birth of Christ: Verbum bonum et suave (sequence, Cividale Monastery, no. 56)
  5. Officium quod fit in nocte Natalis Domini (from the Capitolary Monastery, Padua, C55, C56, 14th century)
  6. Presentation of Jesus at the Temple: Officium in die purificationis (from the Capitolare Monastery)
  7. The Passion of our Lord: Lamentum Beatae Mariae Virginis (from the Capitolare Monastery)
  8. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin: O lilium convallium (trope, Cividale Monastery)

Playing time: CD 1: 55' 05" - CD 2: 41' 37"

Performers:
Nova Cantica - Maria Silvia Roveri, dir.
Maria Silvia Roveri (voice, symphonia), Nadia Caristi (voice), Bronislawa Falinska (voice), Ulrike Wurdak (voice), Elisabetta Tiso (voice), Sandra Mangini (voice), Ranieri Paluselli (percussion), Walter Testolin (voice), Guiseppe Paolo Cecere (vielle, hurdy-gurdy, medieval lute, psaltery, chamber organ, tambourine)

Recording site and date:
Chiesa di Bivai, Santa Giustina, Belluno, Italy [07/1997 (CD 2) & 05/1998 (CD 1)];
Rel. 2012

Excerpts:
CD 1 [1-19]: Rivo Alto 9905

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