Rebelo

Rebelo: Vesper Psalms and Lamentations
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 53115

Contents:

  1. Lamentations pour le Jeudi Saint (à 8)
    Aleph. Quomodo sedet sola
    Beth. Plorans ploravit
    Ghimel. Migravit Judas
    Daleth. Viae Sion
    Jerusalem convertere

  2. Psaumes de Vêpres
  3. Dixit Dominus (à 16)
  4. Beatus vir (à 8)
  5. Laudate pueri (à 7)
  6. Credidi propter (à 8)
  7. Laudate Dominum (à 10)
  8. Laetatus sum (à 12)
  9. Lauda Jerusalem (à 16)

Performers: Catherine Jousselin, Katelijne Van Laethem, Cecilia Roovers, Carol Schlaikjer; Marie-Claude Vallin (cantus), Claudio Cavina, Nele Minten, Godfried van de Vyvere (altus), Marius van Altena, Harry van Berne, Stéphane van Dijck, Ibo van Ingen, Otto Rastbichler (tenor), Willem Ceuleers, Harry Van der Kamp, Lieven de Roo (bass);
Michèle Vandenbroucque, Béatrice Delpierre, René Van Laken (bassoon), Jean Tubéry (cornett), Wim Becu, Simen Van Mechelen, Harry Ries, Joost Swinkels (sackbut)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: January 1992 (Leuven, Belgium); released: 1993

Compilation:
Sony Classic SBG 7478442 [CDx15] A secret Labyrinth

Information from Patrick Hoffman.

The later recording by the Huelgas Ensemble showing more variety in genres:

Canções, Vilancicos e Motetes Portugueses
Séculos XVI-XVII
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 66288

Other recordings devoted to João Lourenço Rebelo (1610-1661), a composer who might be more Renaissance than Baroque:

Rebelo: Psalms and Lamentations
Ensemble Currende - Erik van Nevel
Eufoda 1344
Sacred Music from Seventeenth Century Portugal
Melgás / Rebelo
The Sixteen - Harry Christophers
Collins Classics 1465

Finally, a recording devoted to João de Sousa Carvalho (d.1798), the leading composer of the last generation of the Portuguese Baroque:

Carvalho: Vesperas de Nossa Senhora
Les pages et les chantres de la Chapelle - Olivier Schneebeli
Astrée 8610

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Todd M. McComb