Chanticleer - Mysteria: Gregorian Chants (1995)
Artist: Chanticleer
Title: Mysteria: Gregorian Chants
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Teldec
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log)
Total Time: 01:01:04
Total Size: 234 MB
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Tracklist:Title: Mysteria: Gregorian Chants
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Teldec
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log)
Total Time: 01:01:04
Total Size: 234 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
[02:10] 01. Chanticleer - Ash Wednesday and Lent - Antiphon: Immutemur
[02:05] 02. Chanticleer - Ash Wednesday and Lent - Kyrie XVII
[02:10] 03. Chanticleer - Ash Wednesday and Lent - Gradual: Laetatus Sum
[04:11] 04. Chanticleer - Palm Sunday - Hosanna, Psalm 23
[01:27] 05. Chanticleer - Maundy Thursday - Antiphon: Dominus Iesus
[03:43] 06. Chanticleer - Good Friday - Responsitory: Tenebrae Factae Sunt
[08:47] 07. Chanticleer - Good Friday - Hymn With Refrain: Pange Lingua, Crux Fidelis
[07:39] 08. Chanticleer - Good Friday - Reproaches And Trisagion
[03:56] 09. Chanticleer - Holy Sunday - Responsory: Christus Factus Est
[03:44] 10. Chanticleer - Holy Sunday - Hymn: Vexilla Regis
[02:50] 11. Chanticleer - Easter - Gloria In Excelsis II
[02:47] 12. Chanticleer - Easter - Alleluia V. Pascha Nostrum
[01:54] 13. Chanticleer - Easter - Sequesnce: Victimae Paschali Laudes
[03:44] 14. Chanticleer - Easter - Offertory: Jubilate Deo
[01:34] 15. Chanticleer - Easter - Agnus Dei XVII
[02:03] 16. Chanticleer - In Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris
[01:34] 17. Chanticleer - In Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Antiphon: Ave Regina Caelorum
[01:37] 18. Chanticleer - In Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Antiphon: Regina Caeli
[03:02] 19. Chanticleer - In Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Antiphon: Salve Regina
From the first notes of the Lenten antiphon "Immutemur," you feel a soothing, reassuring calm from Chanticleer's sensuous, lyrical legato style and perfect unison expression and phrasing. This is first class singing, no matter what the repertoire. But this just happens to be chant, which requires a particular sensitivity to syllabic emphasis and to the rise and fall of phrasing, all of which is determined as much by tradition as by sense of the text. Since there is no existing notation that clearly indicates rhythm or meter for the earliest body of chant repertoire, and there is no unbroken line of chant singing that goes back to the first and second centuries, singers have to rely on a certain accepted scholarship and a tradition that's only a couple of hundred years old. Chanticleer's performing decisions here are articulate, musicologically sensible, and above all musically satisfying, taking this music to its proper level of exalted simplicity. The program includes some of the gems of Gregorian chant, such as "Pange lingua, Crux fidelis" and "Victimae paschali laudes." --David Vernier