Siglo de Oro & Patrick Allies - The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Salus populi ego sum
02. Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
03. Apparens Christus
04. Laetare sancta mater ecclesia
05. Peccavi super numerum arenae maris
06. Pater noster – Ave Maria
07. Haec dies quam fecit
08. Exsurge quare obdormis
09. Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Mariae
10. Ave et gaude gloriosa virgo
11. Veni electa mea
12. Laus Deo, pax vivis



In the late 1530s, Milanese composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore assembled a collection of sacred music and sent it across the Alps to the publisher Peter Schoeffer in Strasbourg. In making the journey from staunchly Catholic Milan to newly Protestant Strasbourg, the repertoire in question became cross-confessional. What was the purpose of publishing a motet book in a German imperial city where Latin choral singing no longer took place?

Siglo de Oro have collaborated with Dr. Daniel Trocmé-Latter (University of Cambridge) to showcase works from this puzzling volume, setting motets by Nicolas Gombert, Jacquet of Mantua, Jacques Arcadelt and Adrian Willaert alongside less familiar names such as Simon Ferrariensis and the enigmatic Johannes Sarton.

The resulting recording exhibits the combination of meticulous musicological research and finely crafted, sonorous singing that their previous Delphian albums have led us to expect.

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