Music from Switzerland: Canti Gregoriani

Program: #08-17🎁   Air Date: Apr 14, 2008

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Another in the ongoing attempts to reconstruct the earliest sound of plainchant, using manuscripts from such famous Swiss sources as St. Gall and Einsiedln; the ensemble I Cantori della Turrita (founded in 1972) continues the distinguished history of chant recordings from Switzerland.

This program is part of a special series.

Continued from: ⮜ #08-16 🔒👑Music from Switzerland: Ex Libris Doctoris Amerbachii
Continues in: ⮞ #08-18 🔒👑Music from Switzerland: O Dulcis Amor

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Preservation of this program is made possible by a generous grant from Dana Wipperman.

NOTE: All of the music on this program comes from the recording Canti Gregoriani featuring the ensemble I Cantori della Turrita directed by Eros Beltraminelli. The ensemble was founded in Bellinzona in 1938 as a boys choir--and girls were added after Eros Beltraminelli took over in 1972.

This recording, on Scena musicale svizzera, is CD # MGB 6127.

Broadcast of this series is made possible in part by a grant from the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. For more information, you may visit:

www.swissemb.org

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Tempus Adventus

  • Antiphon: Ad te levavi ("I lift up my soul to you")
  • Kyrie X (Alme Pater)
  • Graduale: Domine Deus virtutem ("Be lifted up, O Lord")
  • Alleluia: Laetatus sum ("Alleluia! I was glad when they said unto me")
  • Offertorium: Ave Maria ("Hail Mary, full of grace")
  • Sanctus VI
  • Pater noster ("Our Father")
  • Agnus Dei IV
  • Communio: Pusillanimes ("Say: O ye of little faith")

Tempus per annum

  • Antiphon: Respice in me ("Turn to me and have mercy")
  • Graduale: Jacta cogitatum tuum ("Cast your care upon the Lord")
  • Graduale: Domine Dominus noster ("Lord, our Lord")
  • Alleluia: Exsultate Deo ("O sing joyfully to our God")
  • Offertorium: Intende voci ("Hear the voice of my prayer")
  • Communio: Illumina faciem tuam ("Let Your face light up")

Varia

  • Antiphona ad introitum: Viri Galilaei ("You men of Galilee")
  • Antiphon: Salve Regina ("Hail, O Queen, Mother of mercy")

This program is part of a special series.

Continued from: ⮜ #08-16 🔒👑Music from Switzerland: Ex Libris Doctoris Amerbachii
Continues in: ⮞ #08-18 🔒👑Music from Switzerland: O Dulcis Amor

CD Info

CD # MGB 6127

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