Corpus Christi

Gil-Tàrrega, Josep R., Victoria Musicae

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The city of Valencia’s Corpus Christi Royal College, known locally as ‘del Patriarca’, was established in the early 17th century by Juan de Ribera, Archbishop of Valencia and patriarch of Antioch. From the start, its founder had intended this church and seminary to become a great centre for sacred music, so he also created the ‘del Patriarca’ chapel within it, an institution that would become home to over three centuries of music making, overseen by a succession of Kapellmeisters serving as its resident composers and music directors. This programme is dedicated to this musical legacy and to the Kapellmeisters from the first century of the chapel’s existence, composers living and working in the height of the baroque era on the Iberian Peninsula. Following the structure of the Office of Compline (the final church service of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours) set during the Octave of the Feast of Corpus Christi (the College’s namesake), the vocal and instrumental group Victoriae Musicae explores compositions by these 17th-century Kapellmeisters, all of the music researched and transcribed by them from unpublished archival manuscripts.

Works:

• Plainchant: Deus in adjutorium versicle
• Máximo Ríos Te lucis ante terminum hymn
• Plainchant: Miserere mihi Domine antiphon
• Antonio Ortells: Cum invocarem psalm
• Ortells Qui habitat psalm
• Aniceto Baylón: Ecce benedicite Dominum psalm
• Plainchant: Miserere mihi Domine antiphon
• José Hinojosa: In manus tuas short responsory
• Plainchant: Salva nos, Domine antiphon
• Ortells Nunc: dimittis canticle
• Plainchant: Salva nos, Domine antiphon
• Marcos Pérez: Salve Regina antiphon Joan Baptista Comes: Letanías al Santísimo Sacramento litany

CD x 1

Brilliant Classics

2019-11-13

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