Office of St. Domenico

O spem miram

Ufficio e Messa per S.Domenico secondo il canto dell'Ordine dei Predicatori - secolo XIII
Ensemble Cantilena Antiqua - Stefano Albarello
Symphonia 96145

Contents:

Ad vesperas:

1. Gaude felix parens (antiphona)
2. Gaude mater ecclesia (hymnus)
3. Transit pauper ad regni (ant. ad magn.)
4. Adsunt Dominici (ad mat. inv.)

I nocturno:

5. Preco novus et celicus (antiphona)
6. Mundum vocans / Ad hoc convivium (responsorium)
7. Datum mundo / Stella micans (responsorium)
8. Verbum vite / Ter in flammas (responsorium)

II nocturno:

9. Sub Augustini regula (antiphona)
10. Panis oblatus / Signo crucis (responsorium)
11. Granum Excussu / Flos in florem (responsorium)

III nocturno:

12. Sitiebat servus (antiphona)
13. Felix vitis / Exubertate palmitum (responsorium)
14. Ascendenti de valle / Per quem multos (responsorium)
15. O spem miram / Qui tot signis (responsorium)

In laudibus:

16. Adest dies letitie (antiphona)

Missa in die:

17. In medio ecclesie (introitus)
18. Os iusti / Lex Dei (responsorium)
19. Pie Pater (alleluya)
20. Gloria à 2
21. In celesti yerachia (sequentia)
22. Desiderium (offertorium)
23. Fidelis servus (communio)

Ad completorium:

24. O lumen ecclesie (antiphona)
25. Benedictus redemptor hominum (antiphona)
26. Magne pater à 2

Performers: Vincenzo Di Donato, Antonio Domenighini, Andrea Favari, Nino Marini, Stefano Albarello, Matteo Zenatti (voices)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: May 1996

This is an all-male vocal performance of plainchant from the Dominican order. The order was founded in 1216, and this cycle dating from c.1260 is in memory of Saint Domenico.

A somewhat similar recording devoted to music from the Bobbio monastery, founded by Colombano in AD 612:

Vernans Rosa

Melodie dello Scriptorium di Bobbio, XII-XIV secolo
Gruppo di Canto Ambrosiano - Luigi Bennedetti
Sipario 31

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