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St. Benedikt´s Prayer (33x)

Ven Señor Jesus

Te Deum

17. O Sapientia

Inviolata Integra Et Casta Es Maria (Gregorian Chant By Chant Group Psallentes)

Work on preparing this album began in 2019, when I first encountered Mykola Dyletsky’s music – we performed fragments of his Requiem Liturgy with Wrocław Baroque Ensemble in Kyiv. At that time, they made a great impression on me, which, along with my subsequent work as a conductor on this artist’s works and subsequent concerts, strengthened my feeling that I was dealing with a unique repertoire. Dyletsky’s work is a fascinating encounter between the East and the West – the language, liturgy and melody of the Eastern Church harmonise with Western compositional techniques and musical styles. There are clear inspirations from the Venetian polychoral style and stile concertato, and tutti sections are often intertwined with figurative fragments in a solo ensemble. You can also see elements of musical rhetoric (...)
Both liturgical pieces presented on the album were written for two fourpart vocal ensembles. In my opinion, the way they are performed should be similar to the way we perform religious polychoral music of that period,
created for the Catholic Church in the Western Latin rite. I have a strong impression that if the a cappella texture present in these works were supplemented with instruments typical of European music from the first half
of the seventeenth century (e.g. cornets and trombones), i.e. instruments used, among others, by Claudio Monteverdi or Bartłomiej Pękiel and Mikołaj Zieleński, then it would transpire how close Dyletsky’s music was
to what was happening in Western Europe at that time. (...)
This project was an opportunity for me to come into contact with music that was created in the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, but at the same time lies at the source of Ukrainian polyphonic music.
A great discovery was the fact that one of the ways through which polyphony entered the field of Orthodox Church music was Dyletsky’s work – his relations with Polish artists and his knowledge of the Italian style.
Interestingly, this process was one of the reasons why Orthodox music did not return to full monody, such as in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Therefore, we have evidence that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
in Dyletsky’s times was a space of unrestricted exchange of artistic ideas and their mutual interpenetration, and that the foundations of European integration in the field of culture were laid there.
I would like to thank the artists and all the people who participated in the preparation of this album. In addition, I would like to express my special gratitude for all help and substantive support to Dr Irina Gerasimova (Bazylowa), Prof. Aleksander Naumow, Dr Łukasz Hajduczenia, as well as Ludmila Kapustina and Volodymyr Andrushchak.

Andrzej Kosendiak (tranls. Anna Marks)

ACD 338 - Track 1 - Dyletsky - Requiem Liturgy

Alcuni tra i più celebri canti gregoriani accompagnati dall'orchestra sinfonica. Un repertorio intramontabile in una versione ricca di fascino, sonorità e suggestioni.

Jesu dulcis memoria, di B. di Chiaravalle

Dominus Illuminatio Mea - Catholic Gregorian Chant Songs  AAC 256k

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

Eya explores the connection of the human spirit to the celestial realm through songs and hymns devoted to the Virgin. Includes music of medieval England, France, and Spain of the 12th through the 14th centuries. 

Recorded at Washington National Cathedral.

Eya: Ensemble for Medieval Music
Allison Mondel, soprano, director
Crossley Hawn, soprano
Kristen Dubenion-Smith, mezzo-soprano
with guest:
Nola Richardson, soprano

Worcester Conductus / Salve Virgo Tonantis Solium

Las Huelgas Codex Conductus / Ave Maris Stella

Stabat Mater Dolorosa

The Monks of Notre Dame /// De Ore Leonis

Regina Caeli

A rare example of 12th century Aquitanian polyphony. Performed by Ignea Strata, May 2018.

O Primus Homo Coruit

Salve, regina, mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Evae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.
Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis virgo Maria.


Salve, reina, madre de misericordia,
Vida, dulzura y esperanza nuestra, salve.
A ti clamamos, exiliados hijos de Eva.
A ti suspiramos, gimiendo y llorando
en este valle de lágrimas.
Ea pues,  abogada nuestra,
esos, tus ojos misericordiosos, vuelve a nosotros.
Y a Jesús, bendito fruto de tu vientre,
muéstranos, después de este exilio.
Oh clemente, oh piadosa, oh dulce virgen María.

Salve Regina - Antífona marial -(Antifonario Benedictino, 2007)

Benedictus gregoriano

The Harpa Dei Choir is a vocal ensemble made up of four siblings, both in blood and in spirit: Nikolai, Lucia, Marie-Elisée and Mirjana Gerstner. As their spiritual foundation they have the long formation they have received in a religious community of Catholics.
Harpa Dei tries to collect the most beautiful songs from different traditions to glorify God and to transmit to people the beauty of the Lord that shines so eminently in sacred music.

Te Deum

Harpa Dei

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