Performer: Ora Singers
Conductor: Suzi Digby
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMM90533435
Release: 2023
Size: 3.01 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. [Bells]
02. Assumpta est Maria (a)
03. Deus in adjutorium
04. Assumpta est Maria in cælum
05. Assumpta est Maria (b)
06. Dixit Dominus
07. Assumpta est Maria (c)
08. Maria Virgo assumpta est
09. In Homeward Flight
10. Laudate pueri
11. Maria Virgo assumpta est (reprise)
12. In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus
13. In odorem
14. Lætatus sum
15. In odorem unguentorum quorum currimus (reprise)
16. Benedicta filia tua Domino
17. Benedicta filia
18. Nisi Dominus
19. Benedicta filia tua Domino (reprise)
20. Pulchra es et decora filia Jerusalem
21. Pulchra es et decora
22. Lauda Jerusalem Dominum
23. Pulchra es et decora, filia Jerusalem (reprise)
24. Ave Maris Stella (a)
25. Ave Maris Stella (b)
CD 02
01. Exaltata est
02. Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit
03. Magnificat
04. Hodie Maria Virgo cælos ascendit (reprise)
05. Benedicamus Domino
06. O salutaris hostia
07. Ave Virgo sanctissima
08. Sanctissima
09. Tantum ergo
10. Adoremus
11. Ave Regina cælorum (a)
12. Ave Regina cælorum (b)
This recording takes the listener on a fantasy choral journey using the traditional services of Vespers and Benediction as its guide. It weaves hypnotic plainchant around renaissance gems and modern masterpieces.
The music of the great Renaissance masters Palestrina, Guerrero and Anerio sit alongside distinctive voices from the twenty first century: James MacMIllan, Julian Anderson, John Joubert, Sven-David Sandström and Matthew Martin.