Pilgrimage To Santiago: Gardiner / Monteverdi Choir

PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO

In 2004, its fortieth anniversary year, the Monteverdi Choir under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner undertook a pilgrimage in song through France and Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, performing in the great abbeys and cathedrals along the way. The choir’s pilgrimage programmes focussed on the sacred polyphony of the Iberian peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these works being set in a broader European context through the inclusion of pieces by composers who worked outside Spain and Portugal, but whose music was probably known there. This recording, the second of two made on the choir’s return to London, offers a chance to share their experience of living inside the music along El camino de Santiago.

SDG 701 (1 cd) contains:

Music from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus:
Dum pater familias
Congaudeant Catholici
Alma perpetui
Psallat chorus celestium
O Venerande Apostoli
O lux et decus Hispaniae

from the Llibre Vermell:
O virgo splendens

and by composers Tomás Luis de Victoria:
Missa O Quam Gloriosum
Motet O Quam Gloriosum
Vadam et Circuibo

Jacobus Clemens non Papa:
O Maria vernans rosa
Sanctus

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina:
Jesu Rex admirabilis

Guillaume Dufay:
Rite majorem

Cristobal Morales:
Parce mihi Domine

Orlande de Lassus:
Iustorum animae

and Jean Mouton:
Nesciens mater

(recorded: All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London - May 2005)

The Monteverdi Choir | John Eliot Gardiner