Stella del Nostro Mar

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Date CD: 27th Oct 2008 | Glossa | 74:49

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Past and present reflections of the Marian inspiration

The four voices of the Cantica Symphonia are so gentle yet precise; so subtle in their modulation of dynamics and so poignant in their expressiveness that they put other music to shame.

tracklist:

1 Frater Petrus: Ave Maria, virgo serena (Laude libro secondo, Venice, Ottaviano Petrucci, 1507)

2 Jean Mouton (c1459-1522): Ave fuit prima salus (Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Ms Q19)

3 Salve Regina (anonymous, Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Ms 89)

4 Francisco de Penalosa (c1470-1528): Sancta mater istud agas (Barcelona, Biblioteca Central, Ms 454)

5 Heinrich Isaac (c1450-1517): Alma redemptoris mater (Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms 11 1 232)

6 Carlo Galante (born 1959): Stella del nostro mar - Madrigale spirituale su rima di Vittoria Colonna (dedicated to Cantica Symphonia, 2007)

7 Ludwig Senfl (c1486-1542/43): Virgo prudentissima (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Mus Ms 10

8 Adrian Willaert (c1490-1552): Ave Maria, gratia plena (Willaert, Musica quatuor vocum ... Liber primus, Venice, Girolamo Scotto, 1539)

9 Ave regina caelorum (Anonymous, Milano, Archivio della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo, Sezione Musicale, Librone 1; olim 2269)

10 Heinrich Isaac: Sub tuum praesidium (Reconstruction based on organ tablature by Fridolin Sicher, St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Ms 530)

11 Josquin Des Prez (c1450-1521): Gaude virgo mater Christi (Motetti libro quarto, Venice, Ottaviano Petrucci, 1505)

12 Jean Mouton: O Maria, virgo pia (Motetti libro quarto, Venice, Ottaviano Petrucci, 1505)

13 Heinrich Isaac: O praeclarissima (1st part: Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms 1494; 2nd part: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Ms Panciatichi 27, with text freely extracted from the motet Ave virgo / Ave gloriosa / Domino, Ms Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Lit 115

14 Yakov Gubanov (born 1954) Benedicta et venerabilis (dedicated to Cantica Symphonia, 2007)

Cantica Symphonia:

Laura Fabris, soprano

Giuseppe Maletto, tenor

Fabio Furnari, tenor

Marco Scavazza, baritone