anon.: Vespers for St. Michael’s Day, etc.

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Catalogue No: BMC128
Label: BMC
Length: 46 minutes

trad.: Vespers for St. Michael's Day

Work length12:57

$5.60

$7.35

Ágnes Kiss (soloist), György Merczel (soloist)
Schola Hungarica
László Dobszay, Janka Szendrei

Antiphone with Psalm

Track length3:14

$0.80

$1.05

Capitle

Track length0:37

$0.80

$1.05

Responsory

Track length1:55

$0.80

$1.05

Hymn

Track length2:07

$0.80

$1.05

Versicle

Track length0:24

$0.80

$1.05

: Antiphon with the Magnificat Chant and Polyphony

Track length3:36

$0.80

$1.05

Prayer

Track length1:04

$0.80

$1.05

trad.: Mass for St. Martin's Day

Work length8:32

$3.20

$4.20

Schola Hungarica
Janka Szendrei

Gradual

Track length1:58

$0.80

$1.05

Alleluia

Track length2:12

$0.80

$1.05

Sequence

Track length3:27

$0.80

$1.05

Offertory

Track length0:55

$0.80

$1.05

trad.: Vespers for St. Martin's Day

Work length25:28

$6.40

$8.40

Ágnes Kiss (soloist), István Csuthy (soloist), Benedek Héja (soloist), Bálint Kruppa (soloist), Anna Várföldi (soloist), Bálint Kiss (soloist)
Schola Hungarica
Janka Szendrei, László Dobszay

Antiphons with Psalm Intonations

Track length4:51

$0.80

$1.05

Capitle

Track length0:35

$0.80

$1.05

Responsory

Track length3:22

$0.80

$1.05

Hymn

Track length1:50

$0.80

$1.05

Versicle

Track length0:22

$0.80

$1.05

Antiphon with the Magnificat Chant and Polyphony

Track length10:55

$0.80

$1.05

Prayer

Track length0:59

$0.80

$1.05

Antiphon of Commemoration

Track length2:34

$0.80

$1.05

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In 1571, a widow called Anna Hannsen Schuman donated a highly valuable manuscript to the collegiate chapter of Pozsony (at the time the most important city in Hungary not under Turkish domination, now Bratislava in Slovakia), named after Saint Martin. The codex contains 239 polyphonic works, almost all for the enrichment of evening office of vespers. The composers of some works can be identified (Mouton, Isaac, Finck, Morales, Walther, etc.) but most of the pieces are anonymous. The manuscript was actually in daily use: the pieces, in the German-Flemish style of the time, and mostly short, could be interpolated between the movements of the Gregorian vespers on feastdays, clearly selecting them to match the abilities of the singing group available at the time. The annotations made later into the music show that the manuscript was actually used, and this is witness to the developed Renaissance musical life of the church.

This disc highlights two vespers from the collection: that for the feast of Saint Martin, patron saint of the church, and that for Saint Michael, which falls close to it in the calendar. As in the practice of the time, the prescribed Gregorian chant and their polyphonic arrangements were mixed as necessary in the liturgy, so this disc mixes the two, transcribing the Gregorian movements from the extant codexes from the same church.

anon.: Vespers for St. Michael’s Day, etc.

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