Musical Book of Hours

Musical Book of Hours
Pomerium - Alexander Blachly
Archiv Produktion 457 586
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Contents:

    Calendar

    Guillaume Du Fay, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Misc. 213, fol. 44v:
  1. Bon jour, bon mois, bon an

    2. Gospel Lesson

    Josquin Desprez, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Sistina 38, fol. 1v-8:
  2. In principio erat verbum

    3. O Intemerata

    Johannes Ockeghem, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Chigi, C.VIII.234, fol. 276v-279:
  3. Intemerata Dei mater

    4. Hours of the Virgin

    Matins: Annunciation
    Guillaume Du Fay, Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Muicale, MS Q 15, No. 318:
  4. Ave maris stella
    5. Lauds: Visitation
    Antoine Busnoys, Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 5557, fol. 70v-76:
  5. Magnificat sexti toni
    6. None: Purification
    Josquin Desprez, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, MS Acquisti e Doni 666 (the Medici Codex), fol. 89v-92:
  6. Inviolata, integra et casta
    7. Compline: Assumption & Coronation
    Hilaire Penet, Paris, Attaingnant, 1534: Liber tertius ... motetos
  7. Virgo prudentissima

    8. Hours of the Cross

    Anon., Plainchant, London, British Library, MS Harley 2942, fol. 48-48v:
  8. Venit ad Petrum ... caput

    9. Richard Hygons, Windsor, Eton College Library, MS 178 (Eton Choirbook), fol. i6-i7v:
  9. Salve regina/[Caput]

    10. Hours of the Holy Spirit

    John Dunstaple, London, British Library, MS Add. 57950 (Old Hall Manuscript), fol. 55v-56:
  10. Veni sancte spiritus / Veni creator

    11. Suffrages

    Biteryng, London, British Library, MS Add. 57950 (Old Hall Manuscript), fol. 110v-111:
  11. En Katerine solennia

    12. Office of the Dead

    Josquin Desprez, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Sistina 38, fol. 109v-113:
  12. De profundis clamavi

Playing time: 75' 45"

Recording place and date: Ascension Roman Catholic Church, New York, NY, USA [05/1997]

Performers: Pomerium [Michèle Eaton (soprano), Elizabeth Henreckson-Farnum (soprano), Alessandra Visconti (soprano), Marcia Young (soprano), Johnson Flucker (alto), Stephen Rosser (alto), Neil Farrell (haute-contre), Gregory Carder (tenor), Timothy Leigh Evans (tenor), Michael Steinberger (tenor), Mark Duer (bass), Jeffrey Johnson (bass), Kurt-Owen Richards (bass), Peter Stewart (bass)] - Alexander Blachly, dir.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 76/904-82 (august 1998)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 22/1-368 (sept./oct. 1998)
Goldberg (#-p):

Comments: Information from owned recording. Pomerium under Blachly's direction achieves perfection. A CD to own and cherish.

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