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From the British Isles to the Black Sea
Renaissance Choral Music Performed Live by
Musica Spei
Musica Spei’s debut CD captures the spirit and excitement of live concert performances by one of “Rochester’s Best” (City Newspaper). This collection of nine centuries of rare and treasurable early choral music from around the world contains music of magic, mystery and wonder that is mostly unavailable on any other CD. Featured on the recording is a completely unknown Passion According to Saint John of astonishing power and expressiveness by Handl-Gallus, an eight motet cycle of breathtaking beauty by the great Josquin des Prez, an almost Romantic setting of the last words of Martin Luther by the very accomplished but now forgotten Othmayr, and thrilling but rarely heard music from the non-Western traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Republic of Georgia.
Contents
(To hear samples of the music, click on the underlined titles. Your computer must be able to play MP3 files)
Kyrie ‘Leroy’ (John Taverner)
Miserere mei, Deus (Jacobus Vaet)
Vultum tuum deprecabuntur (Josquin des Prez, edited by Patrick Macey)
O lux beata trinitas (Robert Fayrfax, edited by John White)
Virgo caelesti (Loyset Compère)
Salve Regina (Jacob Obrecht)
Mirabile mysterium (Jacobus Handl-Gallus)
Verba Lutheri Ultima: Mein himmlischer Vater/In manus tuus (Caspar Othmayr)
The Passion According to Saint John (Jacobus Handl-Gallus)
Shen Khar Venakh (Traditional from the Gurian and Kartli-Khaketian regions
of the Republic of Georgia)
Kviria (Traditional from the Svanetian region of the Republic of Georgia)
Mnogoletstvovanie and Kheruvimskaia (Russian Orthodox Church)