Gallus / Handl

Gallus: Opus musicum / Missa super Sancta Maria
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 64305

Contents:

    Opus musicum
  1. Venite ascendamus
  2. Obsecro Domine
  3. Tribus miraculis
  4. Mirabile misterium
  5. Ab oriente venerung magi
  6. Pater noster
  7. Lamentatur Jacob
  8. Eripe me
  9. Versa est in luctum cithara mea
  10. Quo mihi crude dolor
  11. O beata Trinitas
  12. Planxit David
  13. Jesu dulcis memoria
  14. Domine Deus exaudi orationem

    15. Missa super "Sancta Maria"
  15. Kyrie
  16. Gloria
  17. Credo
  18. Sanctus
  19. Agnus Dei

Performers: Lize van Jaarsveld, Katelijne Van Laethem, Marie-Claude Vallin (superius), Claudio Cavina, Steve Dugardin (altus), Marius van Altena, Harry van Berne, Stéphane van Dijck, Eric Mentzel, Otto Rastbichler (tenors), Willem Ceuleers, Lieven Deroo, Harry van der Kamp (basses);
Bart Coen, Peter De Clercq, Baldrick Deerenberg (alto recorder, basset recorder, bass recorder), Wim Becu (tenor sackbut, bass sackbut), Simen Van Mechelen (alto sackbut), Harry Ries (alto sackbut, tenor sackbut), Michèle Van den Broucque (bass dulcian), René Van Laken (tenor dulcian), Jean Tubéry (cornett, mute cornett)

Playing time: 74'

Recording date: January 1994 (Belgium); released: 1994

Compilation:
Sony Classic SBG 7478442 [CDx15] A secret Labyrinth

Jakob Handl (1550-1591), also called Gallus, was from Slovenia. Like Lassus, he worked in Austria and then Bohemia (like De Monte), and was heavily influence by the Venetian style.

Other dedicated recordings:

Gallus: Complete Secular Works
Moralia / Harmoniae Morales
Singer Pur
Ars Musici 1262 (3 CDs)
Handl-Gallus: Lamentations of 1587
Czech Philharmonic Chorus of Brno - Petr Fiala
Supraphon 3280

Other recordings featuring Gallus:

Harant: Missa Quinis vocibis / Handl-Gallus: Missa super "Elisabethae Impletum Est Tempus"
Prague Madrigalists - Miroslav Vanhoda / Musica Antiqua Vienna - René Clemencic
Supraphon 3716
Felix Austriae Domus
Music in the 16th century Hapsburg Empires
Duodena Cantitans / Capella Rudolphina - Petr Danek
Supraphon 3326-2 231
Gallus / Harant: Masses and Sacred Works
Camerata Bratislava - Jan Rozehnal
Slovart Records 0014-2-131
From Bohemia's Castles and Chapels
Music from 16th Century Prague
Concentus Musicus of Minnesota - Arthur Maud
Meridian 84309
Mirabile Mysterium
Sacred Music in Rudolfine Prague
Duodena Cantitans / Capella Rudolphina - Petr Danek
Supraphon 0192-2 231

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Todd M. McComb