Special offer. Compostela: Ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
12th-century music associated with the veneration of St James at Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral. Characterful vocalism from the eight male voices, including the spectacular basso profundo...
Special offer. Compostela: Ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
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12th-century music associated with the veneration of St James at Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral. Characterful vocalism from the eight male voices, including the spectacular basso profundo...
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Since the ninth century, the routes to Santiago de Compostela leading to the sanctuary of St. James have attracted countless pilgrims and exercised a potent mystique. What has received less attention is the music originally sung during the services in honour of the saint. Thanks to Marcel Pérès’s in-depth study of the Codex Calixtinus, preserved at the Cathedral of Santiago, this recording can present a reconstruction of the musical gems contained in the rare twelfth-century manuscript which attests to multiple stylistic influences encountered on this indispensable and all-embracing pilgrimage.
Contents and tracklist
IV. Antiphona "O quanta sanctitate et gracia" - Psalmus " Laudate dominum omnes gentes"
Track length5:55
VI. Antiphona " Sanctissime apostole Iacobe" - Psalmus "Laudate dominum quoniam bonus est psalmus"
Track length5:33
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March 2019
12th-century music associated with the veneration of St James at Santiago de Compostela’s cathedral. Characterful vocalism from the eight male voices, including the spectacular basso profundo of Antoine Sicot.
