Peñalosa: Complete Motets

Peñalosa: Complete Motets

Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner
Hyperion 66574
Hyperion Helios 55357

Contents:

1. Inter vestibulum et altare (à 4)
2. Tribulare, si nescirem (à 4)
3. Ne reminiscaris, Domine (à 3)
4. Versa est in luctum (à 4)
5. Domine, secundum actum meum (à 4)
6. Adoro te, Domine, Jesu Christe (à 3)
7. Ave, verum corpus natum (à 4)
8. Nigra sum, sed formosa (à 3)
9. Sancta Maria (à 3)
10. Unica est columba mea (à 3)
11. Ave, vera caro Christi (à 4)
12. Ave, vere sanguis Domini (à 4)
13. In passione positus (à 4)
14. Precor te, Domine Jesu Christe (à 4)
15. Pater noster (à 4)
16. Ave Regina caelorum (à 4)
17. Sancta Mater, istud agas (à 4)
18. O Domina sanctissima (à 4)
19. Emendemus in melius (à 4)
20. Deus, qui manus tuas (à 4)
21. Domine Jesu Christe, qui neminem (à 4)
22. Traseunte Domino Jesu (à 5)

Performers: Michael Chance, Timothy Penrose, James Griffett, Ian Partridge, Stephen Roberts, Michael George, Adrian Peacock

Playing time: 68'

Recording date: October 1991

These are tightly constructed pieces with a broad emotional range, performed here entirely by a small ensemble of men's voices. The recording is designed more as an anthology than as an album.

Recordings devoted to Peñalosa masses:

Peñalosa: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor

Les Sacqueboutiers / Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 922305

Peñalosa: Missae Ave Maria peregrina & Nunca fué pena mayor

Westminster Cathedral Choir - James O'Donnell
Hyperion 66629

Somewhat broader collections:

Peñalosa: Un Libro de Horas de Isabel La Católica

Odhecaton - Paolo Da Col
Bongiovanni 5623

Court and Cathedral

The two worlds of Francisco de Peñalosa
Concentus Musicus Minnesota - Arthur Maud
Meridian 84406

An anthology featuring somewhat later music:

El Siglo de Oro

Spanish Sacred Music of the Renaissance
Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner
Teldec (Das Alte Werk) 46003 (2 CDs)

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