Alma Redemptoris Mater from Gregorian Chant, Christmas Chants by the monks of the abbey of Einsiedeln

Alma Redemptoris Mater from Gregorian Chant, Christmas Chants

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])

Crux Fidelis
Gregorian Chant (Sacred Scripture)
Consortium Vocale / Alexander Schweitzer

Gregorian chant, in its all-embracing spirituality and poetry, appeals to the deeper levels of the human heart. Monks in the Middle Ages composed and performed this music as an integrated part of their daily occupation with Sacred Scripture. Throughout the centuries Gregorian chant has enriched and deepened the liturgy of the church, and has been a source of inspiration in every period of European music history. Under the leadership of Alexander M. Schweitzer, Consortium Vocale presents chants from the five Sundays of Lent, Palm Sunday and Good Friday, recorded in the medieval church at Ringsaker in Norway.

Album: EXAUDIAM EUM - Gregorian Chant for Lent and Holy Week (2L43SACD)
Recording venue: Ringsaker Church, September 2006
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)

Consortium Vocale: Crux Fidelis (gregorian chant)

Old Roman Catholic Chant - Deus A Libano Veniet

You Simply Have to Love: Pilgrim's Songs performed by the Festive Choir and the Monastic Choir of St Elisabeth Convent, 2012
View more at catalog.obitel-minsk.com


You Simply Have to Love. A Pilgrim's Songs

03  Monks Singing Gregorian Chant In A Catholic Benedictine Seminary

Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterpieces From Russia

Sung by the finest Russian and Bulgarian choirs, this extraordinary collection of transcendent prayers and hymns highlights a timeless Russian tradition of faith and devotion. For sheer beauty, there is little to match it anywhere in the world. The solemn ecstasy in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church can trace its roots back to the earliest days of Christian worship, via the great Byzantine Empire of the Near East. It presents an uncompromising search for peaks and depths of expressive fervor, aloof from all gimmicks. That was true of the music's multi-cultural roots as monastic chant, and was maintained as it evolved into full choral harmony in the late Romantic period.

Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks from Russia

Great Ektenia

SACRED TREASURES | "Great Ektenia" from Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31

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

Kyrie XI
Orbis Factor
Saint Francis de Sales Oratory
Saint Louis, MO

Kyrie, Orbis Factor

Videte miraculum - Thomas Tallis

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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Ave Maria

Vavilov: Ave Maria | attributed to Caccini | Marianne Lihannah | Mezzo | Liz Leachman | Piano

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Vavilov: Ave Maria | attributed to Caccini | Marianne Lihannah | Mezzo | Liz Leachman | Piano

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