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Missa Iste Confessor Domini

Musurgia Ensemble, Joao Francisco Tavora

Label
Coviello Classics
Catalogue number
COV 92603
EAN / barcode
4039956926030
Format
Digital
With Missa Iste Confessor Domini, the Musurgia Ensemble presents a fascinating journey through 16th-century music, drawn directly from the historical manuscripts of the Santa Cruz monastery in Coimbra, Portugal. At the center is the eponymous mass, taken from the choirbook P-Cug MM 2 - one of Portugal's most important musical sources from this period. This manuscript, probably made in 's-Hertogenbosch shortly after 1530, contains eleven masses by renowned Franco-Flemish composers such as Noel Bauldeweyn, Pierre de La Rue, Jean Mouton, Pierre Moulu and Adrian Willaert. The extraordinary elegance of the book and the careful selection of works point to a prestigious origin - possibly commissioned or purchased by the monastery, which wanted to ensure access to the most advanced polyphony in Europe. The central Missa Iste Confessor Domini raises questions even today: In other sources it is listed under the title Missa supra O quam glorifica luce and attributed to Antoine de Févin, while in Coimbra Pierre de La Rue is named as the composer. Despite these different attributions, the Coimbra version is convincing because of clear indications, particularly for the complex canons in the Sanctus, which other sources only transmit incorrectly. The program is supplemented with instrumental works from the Coimbra manuscripts MM 48 and MM 242, including ricercars and tentos by Heliodoro de Paiva, António Carreira and Jacques Buus. This reveals the rich sound of the Santa Cruz monastery, which not only welcomed international polyphony but also cultivated a vibrant indigenous musical culture. João Francisco Távora, renowned recorder player and artistic director of the Musurgia Ensemble, draws on his many years of experience with Portuguese Renaissance and Baroque music. After his studies in Porto and Leipzig, he traveled internationally as a soloist and ensemble director and made numerous recordings.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie Ia 00:14
  2. 02 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie Ib 00:45
  3. 03 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie Ic 00:13
  4. 04 Missa Iste confessor domini: Christe Ia 01:24
  5. 05 Missa Iste confessor domini: Christe Ib 00:12
  6. 06 Missa Iste confessor domini: Christe Ic 01:24
  7. 07 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie IIa 00:12
  8. 08 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie IIb 01:06
  9. 09 Missa Iste confessor domini: Kyrie IIc 00:14
  10. 10 Missa Iste confessor domini: Gloria in excelsis Deo 02:29
  11. 11 Missa Iste confessor domini: Qui tollis peccata mundi 02:48
  12. 12 Verso do 4° Tom 02:03
  13. 13 Missa Iste confessor domini: Credo in unum Deum 03:09
  14. 14 Missa Iste confessor domini: Et incarnatus est 02:32
  15. 15 Missa Iste confessor domini: Et ascendit 03:36
  16. 16 Ricercar sexto 08:21
  17. 17 Missa Iste confessor domini: Sanctus 01:05
  18. 18 Missa Iste confessor domini: Pleni sunt celi 02:04
  19. 19 Missa Iste confessor domini: Osanna I 01:13
  20. 20 Missa Iste confessor domini: Benedictus 00:41
  21. 21 Missa Iste confessor domini: Qui venit 00:53
  22. 22 Missa Iste confessor domini: In nomine Domini 00:50
  23. 23 Missa Iste confessor domini: Osanna II 01:11
  24. 24 Tento do 2º Tom por Gsolreut 02:38
  25. 25 Iste confessor domini 00:33
  26. 26 Missa Iste confessor domini: Agnus Dei I 01:17
  27. 27 Missa Iste confessor domini: Agnus Dei II 01:20
  28. 28 Missa Iste confessor domini: Agnus Dei III 03:15

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