Rore motets

Cipriano de Rore: Sacred & Secular Motets
Weser-Renaissance - Manfred Cordes
CPO 999 506

Contents:

  1. Laudem dicite (à 5)
  2. Ave regina (à 7)
  3. Iustus es (à 5)
  4. Miserere nostri (à 4)
  5. O crux (à 4)
  6. Pater noster (à 5)
  7. Da pacem Domine (à 5)
  8. O fortuna (à 5)
  9. Mirabar solito (à 6)
  10. O qui populos (à 5)
  11. Descendi in hortum meum (à 7)
  12. Caro mea (à 4)
  13. Beati omnes (à 4)
  14. Quem vidistis (à 7)
  15. Hodie Christus natus est (à 6)
  16. Agimus tibi gratias (à 5)

Performers: Susanne Rydén (soprano), Ralf Popken (alto), Jan Strömberg (tenor), Harry Geraerts (tenor), Hans Wijers (bass), William Dongois (cornetto), Yuji Fujimoto, Matthias Sprinz, Detlef Reimers, Henning Plumeyer (trombones)

Playing time: 68'39

Recording date: September 1996

A selection of pieces from the deluxe Munich manuscript Mus. Ms. B, compiled in 1559 and consisting solely of motets by Rore. The performances feature Weser-Renaissance's typical "brass-heavy" sound, mostly utilizing only two or three singers per piece.

Other recordings of Rore's sacred music:

Rore: Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Johannem
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 7994
Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem, etc.
Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips
Gimell 454 929

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