Christmas – Gregorian chant at Beuron Abbey

Christmas – Gregorian chant at Beuron Abbey
Midnight Mass – Second Vespers of Christmas – Compline of Christmas – Third Christmas Mass
Choir of the Monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Martin, Beuron – Dr. Maurus Pfaff, dir.
Pristine Audio PACO 066 [CDx2]

Contents:

    CD-1

    Gregorian Chant: First Christmas Mass (Midnight Mass)
  1. Introitus
  2. Kyrie
  3. Gloria
  4. Oratio
  5. Graduale: Tecum principium
  6. Alleluia
  7. Credo
  8. Offertorium
  9. Secreta
  10. Doxologia
  11. Communio

    12. Gregorian Chant: Second Vespers of Christmas
  12. Deus in adiutorium
  13. Tecum principium
  14. Redemptionem
  15. Exortum est
  16. Apud Dominum
  17. Capitulum: Multifarium
  18. Responsorium breve: Verbum caro
  19. Hymnus: Christe Redemptor omnium
  20. Hodie Christus - Magnificat
  21. Kyrie eleison - Pater noster
  22. Oratio: Concede quaesumus

    23. CD-2

    Gregorian Chant: Compline of Christmas
  23. Benedictio - Lectio brevis - Confessio
  24. Converte nos, Deus - Deus in adiutorium
  25. Miserere
  26. Hymnus: Tu lucis ante terminum
  27. Capitulum - Responsorium breve
  28. Salva nos - Nunc dimitis
  29. Kyrie - Pater Noster - Oratio
  30. Antiphonal: Alma Redemptoris Mater

    31. Gregorian Chant: Third Christmas Mass
  31. Introitus: Puer natus est nobis
  32. Kyrie altissime
  33. Gloria II
  34. Oratio - Lectio Epistolae
  35. Graduale: Viderunt omnes
  36. Alleluia
  37. Lectio sancti Evangelii
  38. Credo I
  39. Offertorium: Tui sunt caeli
  40. Oratio super oblata - Praefatio in Nativitate Domini
  41. Sanctus
  42. The Bell of St. Martin's Archabbey, Beuron
  43. Doxologia - Pater Noster - Pax Domini
  44. Agnus Dei III
  45. Communio: Viderunt omnes
  46. Postcommunio - Ite, missa est

Playing time: (44' 26" + 44' 26") + (44' 26" + 44' 26") = 2h 27' 04"

Performers, recording sites and dates:
See links below;
Rel.: 2006

Excerpts from (original release)
[1]-[2] Gramophone (France) - La Voix de son maître DB 4893 [78rpm, 30cm] Josquin des Prés (La Maîtrise de la Cathédrale de Dijon - Msgr Joseph Samson, dir.)
[3] Columbia (G.-B.) LX 767 [78 r.p.m.] Josquin - Berlioz (Choeur de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg - Abbé Alphonse Hoch, dir.)
[4]-[5] His Master's Voice (HMV-G.B.) DB 1570 [78rpm, 30cm] Arcadelt / Palestrina (Sistine Choir - Monsignor Lorenzo Preobi, dir. & Monsignor Antonio Rella, cond.)
[6]-[7] His Master's Voice (HMV-G.B.) DB 1571 [78rpm, 30cm] Palestrina (Sistine Choir - Monsignor Lorenzo Preobi, dir. & Monsignor Antonio Rella, cond.)
[8] Gramophone (France) - La Voix de son maître DB 4896 / 7 [78rpm, 30cm] Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria (La Maîtrise de la Cathédrale de Dijon - Msgr Joseph Samson, dir.)
[9]-[10] His Master's Voice (HMV-Holland ?) DB 17195 [78rpm, 30cm] Palestrina (Amsterdamsch A Capella Koor Bel Canto - Alphons Vranken, dir.)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 35/5-462 (May/June 2012)

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Pierre-F. Roberge