Choral Music from the Portuguese Renaissance

Choral Music from the Portuguese Renaissance
Studium Chorale - Eric Hermans
Globe 5108

Contents:

  1. De profundis (plainchant)
  2. Estêvão Lopes Morago: De profundis (4 vv)
  3. Manuel Cardoso: Ne recorderis (4 vv)

  4. Filipe de Magalhães: Missa pro defunctis (6 vv)
  5. Introitus: Requiem aeternam
  6. Kyrie eleison
  7. Graduale: Requiem aeternam
  8. Tractus: Absolve Domine (plainchant)
  9. Offertorio: Domine Jesu Christe
  10. Sanctus-Benedictus
  11. Agnus Dei
  12. Communio: Lux aeterna
  13. Manuel Cardoso: Libera me (4 vv)
  14. In paradisum (plainchant)
  15. Filipe de Magalhães: Commissa mea (6 vv)
  16. Estêvão de Brito: Heu, Domine (6 vv)
  17. João Laurenço Rebelo: Lamentations for the eve of Maundy Thursday (8 vv)

Performers: Studium Chorale [Jeaneke van Buul, Angéle Frissen, Paula Hermans, Jacqueline ter Linden, Dineke van der Sman, Mieke van Wijngaarden (sopranos); Els Geurts, Anne-Marieke Hamers, Ine Janssen, Karin Leentjens, Nicole Palmen, Cécile Schouten (contraltos); Paul van de Bemt, Patrick Henckens, Hein Meens, John Nijsten, Wim Steinbusch, Paul Timmermans (tenors); Franco Ackermans, Frans Gommers, Frans Huyts, Guido Janssen, Mathieu Vermeulen (basses)].

Playing time: 66:02

Recording date: July 1993

All of the composers on this recording were students of the so-called "Évora School," founded at Évora Cathedral by Manuel Mendes. Cardoso and Magalhães were both pupils of Mendes, while de Brito and Morago studied under Magalhães. Rebelo was court composer to king João IV of Portugal, who patronized many of the Évora composers. The present recording takes as its theme pieces surrounding the Office of the Dead, featuring Magalhães' contemplative Requiem and Rebelo's Lamentations for Maundy Thursday, among other, smaller works.

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