Office of St. Domenico

O spem miram
Ufficio e Messa per S.Domenico secondo il canto dell'Ordine dei Predicatori - secolo XIII
Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua - Stefano Albarello
Symphonia 96145

Contents:

    Ad vesperas:
  1. Gaude felix parens (antiphona)
  2. Gaude mater ecclesia (hymnus)
  3. Transit pauper ad regni (ant. ad magn.)
  4. Adsunt Dominici (ad mat. inv.)

  5. I nocturno:
  6. Preco novus et celicus (antiphona)
  7. Mundum vocans / Ad hoc convivium (responsorium)
  8. Datum mundo / Stella micans (responsorium)
  9. Verbum vite / Ter in flammas (responsorium)

  10. II nocturno:
  11. Sub Augustini regula (antiphona)
  12. Panis oblatus / Signo crucis (responsorium)
  13. Granum Excussu / Flos in florem (responsorium)

  14. III nocturno:
  15. Sitiebat servus (antiphona)
  16. Felix vitis / Exubertate palmitum (responsorium)
  17. Ascendenti de valle / Per quem multos (responsorium)
  18. O spem miram / Qui tot signis (responsorium)

  19. In laudibus:
  20. Adest dies letitie (antiphona)

  21. Missa in die:
  22. In medio ecclesie (introitus)
  23. Os iusti / Lex Dei (responsorium)
  24. Pie Pater (alleluya)
  25. Gloria à 2
  26. In celesti yerachia (sequentia)
  27. Desiderium (offertorium)
  28. Fidelis servus (communio)

  29. Ad completorium:
  30. O lumen ecclesie (antiphona)
  31. Benedictus redemptor hominum (antiphona)
  32. Magne pater à 2

Performers: Vincenzo Di Donato, Antonio Domenighini, Andrea Favari, Nino Marini, Stefano Albarello, Matteo Zenatti (voices)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: May 1996

This is an all-male vocal performance of plainchant from the Dominican order. The order was founded in 1216, and this cycle dating from c.1260 is in memory of Saint Domenico.

A somewhat similar recording devoted to music from the Bobbio monastery, founded by Colombano in AD 612:

Vernans Rosa
Melodie dello Scriptorium di Bobbio, XII-XIV secolo
Gruppo di Canto Ambrosiano - Luigi Bennedetti
Sipario 31

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Todd M. McComb