Missa Gaudeamus

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TOMAS LUIS DE VICTORIA
Missa Gaudeamus
Lay Clerks of Westmionster Cathedral / Matthew Martin / with Thomas Wilson (organ)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 5 August 2009

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'An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording' (Financial Times)

'Westminster Cathedral's 19 Lay Clerks give a beautifully paced rendition of Victoria's rarely performed (and even less often recorded) Missa Gaudeamus … The choral blend is - as might be expected - superb and exquisitely balanced. The countertenors soar to amazing heights without the slightest hint of strain … This benchmark recording is another superb addition to both Hyperion's and Westminster Cathedral's illustrious Victoria discography' (Gramophone)

'Close-up, full-throated and passionate' (International Record Review)

"But the sheer fact that the Lay Clerks sing regularly at Mass means that their performance has many indefinable characteristics which arise out of the use of chant within the liturgy. Simply, they sound as if they have been singing plainchant all their lives and that the chant means something." (MusicWeb Sept 2009)

'An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording' (Financial Times)

'It makes a compelling whole, sung with rapt purity by the male voices of Westminster Cathedral choir' (The Guardian)

A new recording from Westminster Cathedral features the gentlemen of their choir in a fascinating programme which brings to life the musical and liturgical traditions of this foundation.

This recording by the lay clerks of Westminster Cathedral presents a full choral, and instrumental, celebration of Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which falls on 15 August. It is based on music by two major composers, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Victoria's Missa Gaudeamus provides the central feature of an elaborate liturgical sequence in which other music-including motets by Victoria, Mass Propers and other passages of chant, and organ music by Frescobaldi in several forms-is interpolated between the movements of the Mass Ordinary. This festive celebration of Mass is intended not as a reconstruction of a known occasion in the early seventeenth century, but as a sort of musical offering that illustrates the complex liturgical structures becoming available in a period when the resources for the enrichment of the liturgy were growing steadily.

Tracks:

1 Toccata avanti la Messa [1'15] Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Thomas Wilson (organ)
2 Gaudeamus omnes [3'39] Anonymous - Medieval
Missa Gaudeamus Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
3 Movement 1: Kyrie [4'26]
4 Movement 2: Gloria [7'50]
5 Dominus vobiscum - Famulorum tuorum, quaesumus Domine [0'59] Anonymous - liturgical
6 Lectio libri Sapientiae 'In omnibus requiem quaesivi' [2'24] Anonymous - Medieval
7 Propter veritatem [2'47] Anonymous - Medieval
8 Alleluia. Assumpta est Maria in caelum [2'25] Anonymous - Medieval
9 Canzon dopo l'Epistola [1'13] Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Thomas Wilson (organ)
10 Dominus vobiscum - In illo tempore [2'01] Anonymous - Medieval
Missa Gaudeamus Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
11 Movement 3: Credo [11'23]
12 Recercar dopo il Credo [2'39] Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Thomas Wilson (organ)
13 Assumpta est Maria 'Dominus vobiscum' [2'08] Anonymous - Medieval
Vidi speciosam Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
14 Part 1: Vidi speciosam [3'45]
15 Per omnia saecula - Dominus vobiscum - Vere dignum et iustum est [2'54] Anonymous - Medieval
Missa Gaudeamus Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
16 Movement 4: Sanctus [3'15]
17 Movement 5: Benedictus [2'43]
18 Per omnia saecula - Pater noster [1'58] Anonymous - Medieval
Missa Gaudeamus Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
19 Movement 6: Agnus Dei [5'13]
20 Optimam partem elegit sibi Maria [0'44] Anonymous - Medieval
Vidi speciosam Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
21 Part 2: Quae est ista [3'19]
22 Dominus vobiscum - Mensae caelestis participes effecti [1'43] Anonymous - Medieval
23 Recercar 'Sancta Maria' [2'24] Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Thomas Wilson (organ)