Requiem from Córdoba

All Souls' Vespers

Requiem Music from Córdoba Cathedral
Orchestra of the Renaissance - Richard Cheetham
Virgin Veritas 45203

Contents:

1. Processional - Gombert: Je prens congie (winds)
2. Antiphon - Placebo Domino
   Psalm 114 - Pérez: Dilexi, quoniam exaudiet
   Antiphon - Placebo Domino
3. Antiphon - Heu mihi Domine
   Psalm 119 - Ceballos: Ad Dominum cum tribularer
   Antiphon - Heu mihi Domine
4. Antiphon - Dominus custodit
   Psalm 120 - Gombert: Levavi oculos meos
   Antiphon - Dominus custodit
5. Antiphon - Si iniquitates
   Psalm 129 - Josquin: De profundis
   Antiphon - Dominus custodit
6. Antiphon - Opera manuum
   Psalm 137 - Pérez: Confitebor tibi
   Antiphon - Opera manuum
7. Verse - Vasquez: Requiem aeternam
   Response - Et lux perpetua
8. Antiphon - Omne quod dat mihi
   Canticle - Morales: Magnificat
   Antiphon - Omne quod dat mihi
9. Verse - Audivi vocem
   Response - Beati mortui
10. Prayer - Pater noster
    Guerrero: Pater noster (winds)
11. Verse - Vasquez: Requeiem aeternam
    Response - Et lux perpetua
12. Verse - A porta inferi
    Response - Erue, Domine
13. Verse - Dominus vobiscum
    Response - Et cum spiritu tuo
14. Verse - Vasquez: Requiescant in pace
    Response - Amen
15. Oratio - Cabezón: Tiento sobre "Malheur me bat" (organ)
16. Verse - Dominus vobiscum
    Response - Et cum spiritu tuo
17. Recessional - Gombert: Je prens congie (winds)

Performers: Jean-Louis Comoretto (countertenor), Fergus McCluskey (countertenor), Simon Berridge (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Josep Cabré (baritone), Henry Wickham (baritone), Charles Gibbs (bass), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornet), Bétrice Delpierre (shawms, dulcians), Keith McGowan (shawm, dulcian), Bill Lyons (shawm, dulcian), Francis Mercet (shawm, dulcians), Kate van Orden (dulcian), Richard Cheetham (sackbuts), Simon Wills (sackbuts), Sue Addison (sackbuts), Patrick Jackman (sackbuts), Hannelore Devaere (harp), Timothy Roberts (chamber organ), Christopher Wilson (bass lute), Raphael Mizraki (tabor)

Playing time: 58'

Recording date: November 1995

The present program is based on what a Vespers for All Souls' Day (2 November) might have sounded like in Córdoba Cathedral during Spain's most illustrious period. The music is performed as it might have been heard around 1570. Polyphonic works are interspersed with short chants.

Composers represented are Gombert, Juan Ginés Pérez (1548-c.1612), Rodrigo de Ceballos (c.1530-1581), Josquin Desprez, Juan Vasquez (c.1510-c.1560), Morales, Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599), and Cabezón.

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