Glory to God (Gloria)
Mass of St. Monica
Composer and Conductor: Paul Jernberg
Recorded by the Cor Unum Chorale
January 4, 2022
St. John the Evangelist Church
Clinton, Massachusetts

Glory to God - Mass of St. Monica

Performance of the Gregorian Salve Regina coupled with Josquin DesPres's cantus firmus motet in my own performance edition. 

The motet is a marvel of musical craftsmanship: not only does it utilize the Gregorian chant in its entirety in the Alto voice, but its structure is a strict double canon throughout: Soprano/Alto sing one strict canon; Tenor/Bass sing a different strict canon. Performed by Voces Novae et Antiquae under my direction May 16, 2004, in Philadelphia, PA.

The performing edition is also available from me directly: <info@robertamross.com>

Background from Wikipedia:

The *Salve Regina,* also known as the "Hail Holy Queen," is a Marian hymn and one of four Marian antiphons sung at different seasons within the Christian liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. The *Salve Regina* is traditionally sung at Compline in the time from the Saturday before Trinity Sunday until the Friday before the first Sunday of Advent. "Hail Holy Queen" is also the final prayer of the Rosary.

The work was composed during the Middle Ages by German monk Hermann of Reichenau and originally appeared in Latin, the prevalent language of Western Christianity until modern times.

(Premier pars:)
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiæ,
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ,
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos
misericordes oculos ad nos converte;

(Secunda pars:)
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,
hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.
To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;
to thee do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, most gracious advocate,
thine eyes of mercy toward us;
and after this our exile,
show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.


Wikipedia link

Salve Regina (Gregorian chant & Motet by Josquin DesPres; ed. Robert A.M. Ross [1984; rev. 2004])

Coro de Gregoriano de Vitoria-Gasteiz (dir. Antton Lete)
Coro Araba Abesbatza
Coral Samaniego Abesbatza
Daniel Oyarzábal, órgano
Aitor Sáez de Cortázar, director 

Salve Regina-Gregorian (Coro de Gregoriano de Vitoria-Gasteiz)

Gregorian chant - Te Deum

01 - Kyrie Eleison      00:00:27 
02 - Gloria                 00:02:33 
03 - Sanctus              00:05:44 
04 - Agnus Dei          00:07:50

Gregorian Chants - Kyrie Elesion, Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei

Stabat Mater Dolorosa

Marianne Lihannah (mezzo soprano) sings and Liz Leachman is the pianist. 
This very beautiful 'Ave Maria' is less well-known and
commonly attributed to the wonderful Baroque composer Giulio Caccini (1551--1618). (highly doubtful)
Also attributed to Vladimir Vavilov (1925--1973) (more likely)

From Wikipedia: see Ave Maria (disambiguation)
"Ave Maria" is a popular and much recorded aria composed by Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. It is a musical hoax generally misattributed to Baroque composer Giulio Caccini. Vavilov himself published and recorded it on the Melodiya label with the ascription to "Anonymous" in 1972. It is believed that the work received its ascription to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, by an organist Mark Shakhin (one of its performers on the mentioned "Melodiya" longplay), who gave the "newly discovered scores" to other musicians; then in an arrangement made by the organist Oleg Yanchenko for the recording by Irina Arkhipova in 1987; then the piece came to be famous worldwide

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Gregorian chant - Te Deum

A Fé Explicada