Christmas Motets

O Magnum Mysterium
Christmas Motets from Renaissance Europe
Fortuna - Patricia Petersen
Titanic 211

Contents:

  1. Victoria: Ecce Dominus veniet (1572)
    Ecce apparebit Dominus
  2. Willaert: O magnum mysterium (1545)
    Ave Maria
  3. Josquin: Mittit ad Virginem
    Accede, nuncia
  4. Victoria: Conditor alme siderum (1581)
  5. Marenzio: Hodie Christus natus est (1585)
  6. Willaert: Mirabile mysterium (1545)
  7. Morales: Gospel - Cum natus esset Jesus (1541)
    At illi dixerunt
    Et ecce stellam
  8. Palestrina: Dies sanctificatus
  9. Victoria: Magi viderunt stellam (1572)
  10. Guerrero: Canite tuba in Sion (1570)
    Rorate coeli desuper
  11. Handl: Dies sanctificatus
  12. Handl: Resonet in laudibus
  13. Handl: Pueri concinite
  14. Handl: Domus pudici
  15. Morales: Ecco virgo concipet
  16. Josquin: O admirabile commercium
    Quando natus est / Rubum quem viderat
    Germinavit radix Jesse / Ecce Maria
  17. Victoria: O magnum mysterium (1578)
  18. Palestrina: Canite tuba in Sion (1572)
    Rorate coeli desuper

Performers: Sara Armentrout, Annette Bandy, Jill Beimdiek, Lisa Brown, Rick Burts, Claire Castner, David Dodson, Vivian Finkelstein, Gary Hess, Phillip Hopkins, Myrick Howard, Larry Hubbard, Mary Hunter, Kay Johnson, Kent Mullikin, Charlotte Runde, Susan Swanson, Douglas Young

Playing time: 69'

Recording dates: January, Februrary & September 1992

This is an all-vocal recording with a rather ethereal tone.

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Todd M. McComb