Miracles of Sant'Iago

by Anonymous 4

Miracles of Sant'Iago cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1995
  • Label: Harmonia Mundi
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:21
  • Community rating: 4.05/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Ruth Cunningham, Johanna Maria Rose, Susan Hellauer, Marsha Genensky

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Twenty-one selections from the Codex Calixtinus, the twelfth-century manuscript kept at Santiago de Compostela, trace the music of the pilgrimage to St. James. The program moves from monophonic chant to some of the earliest surviving two and three-part polyphony.

Genres

Descriptors: a-cappella, choral, medieval, polyphonic, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Invitatory: Venite omnes cristicole (1:15)
  2. Processional: Salve festa dies (4:37)
  3. Benedicamus trope: Vox nostra resonet (1:40)
  4. Invitatory: Regem regum dominum (0:49)
  5. Benedicamus trope: Nostra phalanx plaudat leta (2:26)
  6. Antiphon: Ad sepulcrum beati Iacobi (2:13)
  7. Benedicamus trope: Ad superni regis decus (3:04)
  8. Brief responsory: Iacobe servorum (2:14)
  9. Benedicamus domino (1:53)
  10. Conductus: In hac die laudes (4:28)
  11. Kyrie trope: Cunctipotens genitor (5:13)
  12. Hymn: Psallat chorus celestium (1:10)
  13. Prosa: Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur (6:27)
  14. Offertory, Ascendens Ihesus in montem (Plainchant for Santiago da Compostela, Codex Calixtinus, ca.1150) (3:46)
  15. Agnus dei trope: Qui pius ac mitis (2:24)
  16. Benedicamus trope: Gratulantes celebremus festum (2:47)
  17. Conductus: Iacobe sancte tuum (5:00)
  18. Responsory: O adiutor omnium seculorum (8:36)
  19. Prosa: Portum in ultimo (2:42)
  20. Benedicamus trope: Congaudeant catholici (3:37)
  21. Prosa: Clemens servulorum (4:48)

Credits

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