Pomerium - Musical Book Of Hours

The group Pomerium was founded in 1972 by Alexander Blachly with the purpose of performing 'virtuoso chapel choirs' of the Renaissance. This is one of the most beautiful early music discs in the catalog--equally attributable to the music and to the perfectly tuned and blended voices, whose timbres couldn't be more appealing to the ear or more appropriate to the style of the repertoire. The very first track--a charming, gentle, hopeful little piece by Dufay, "Bon jour, bon mois, bon an"--leads us easily into the heart and spirit of this well-conceived program, which seeks to duplicate in music the expressive power and visual beauty of the richly illustrated Books of Hours--lovingly created volumes that were a cherished fixture of religious devotional practice in medieval and Renaissance Europe. Among the composers represented are Dufay, Desprez, Busnoys, Dunstaple, and Ockeghem. Musical Book of Hours Pomerium - Alexander Blachly Bitrate - 320 Contents: Calendar Guillaume Du Fay, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Misc. 213, fol. 44v: 1. Bon jour, bon mois, bon an Gospel Lesson Josquin Desprez, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Sistina 38, fol. 1v-8: 2. In principio erat verbum O Intemerata Johannes Ockeghem, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Chigi, C.VIII.234, fol. 276v-279: 3. Intemerata Dei mater Hours of the Virgin Guillaume Du Fay, Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Muicale, MS Q 15, No. 318: 4. Ave maris stella Hours of the Virgin Antoine Busnoys, Brussels, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, MS 5557, fol. 70v-76: 5. Magnificat sexti toni None: Purification Hours of the Virgin Josquin Desprez, Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, MS Acquisti e Doni 666 (the Medici Codex), fol. 89v-92: 6. Inviolata, integra et casta Hours of the Virgin Hilaire Penet, Paris, Attaingnant, 1534: Liber tertius ... motetos 7. Virgo prudentissima Hours of the Cross Anon., Plainchant, London, British Library, MS Harley 2942, fol. 48-48v: 8. Venit ad Petrum ... caput Hours of the Cross Richard Hygons, Windsor, Eton College Library, MS 178 (Eton Choirbook), fol. i6-i7v: 9. Salve regina/[Caput] Hours of the Holy Spirit John Dunstaple, London, British Library, MS Add. 57950 (Old Hall Manuscript), fol. 55v-56: 10. Veni sancte spiritus / Veni creator Suffrages Biteryng, London, British Library, MS Add. 57950 (Old Hall Manuscript), fol. 110v-111: 11. En Katerine solennia Office of the Dead Josquin Desprez, Vatican City, Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolicana, MS Cappella Sistina 38, fol. 109v-113: 12. De profundis clamavi Playing time: 75' 45" Recording place and date: Ascension Roman Catholic Church, New York, NY, USA [05/1997] Performers: Pomerium [Michèle Eaton (soprano), Elizabeth Henreckson-Farnum (soprano), Alessandra Visconti (soprano), Marcia Young (soprano), Johnson Flucker (alto), Stephen Rosser (alto), Neil Farrell (haute-contre), Gregory Carder (tenor), Timothy Leigh Evans (tenor), Michael Steinberger (tenor), Mark Duer (bass), Jeffrey Johnson (bass), Kurt-Owen Richards (bass), Peter Stewart (bass)] - Alexander Blachly, dir.

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