Vesperae In Nativitate Domine

Release Date: 11th Dec 2015
Catalogue No: KTC1526
Label: Etcetera

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Gabrieli, G: Hodie Christus natus est a 10

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Gabrieli, G: Canzon Terza a 4

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Erik Van Nevel

Monteverdi: Dixit Dominus (Selva Morale ed altre raccolte spirituali)

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Erik Van Nevel

Monteverdi: Confitebor tibi, Domine

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Monteverdi: Beatus vir (from Selva Morale e Spirituali)

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Monteverdi: Laudate pueri

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Monteverdi: Gloria a 7, SV 258

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Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum from Selva morale e spirituale

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Monteverdi: Christe, Redemptor Omnium

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Monteverdi: Magnificat (from Selva Morale e Spirituali)

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Cozzolani: Gloria in Altissimis Deo

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Erik Van Nevel

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A Vespers Liturgy for Christmas ‘Ad vesperas’ – literally ‘at dusk’ – indicates the hour at which monks and other clerics of the Western church joined together (and indeed continue to do so) for the evening service, one of the eight daily hours of prayer, known as the ‘offices’. The offices were generally less solemn and ornate than mass celebrations, except for Vespers, which especially in Italy reached a liturgical and musical highpoint, particularly on important feast-days in the church calendar. Like the other offices and the mass, Vespers follows a fixed pattern, whereby daily recurring texts and chants alternate with elements specifically associated with a particular feast. Among the fixed ingredients are the five psalms with their antiphons and then a hymn, all of which is crowned by the Magnificat, Mary’s song of praise upon visiting her cousin Elizabeth (Luke 1: 46-55). These texts were originally sung in monody, but later, especially starting in the 16th century, they were performed polyphonically (at least in part). In 1550 a collection of polyphonic settings of the psalms was published in Venice. The composers were Adriaan Willaert, the Flemish-born Kapellmeister of the San Marco basilica, and his French colleague Jacques Colebault, better known as Jacquet of Mantua. Choirmasters now had at their disposal a broad choice of polyphonic works with which to adorn their Vesper services.

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