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Track(s) taken from CDA66735

Ave maris stella

composer
Pedro de Cristo (c1550-1618)
4vv ATTB; Biblioteca Geral da Universidade, Coimbra, Portugal P-Cug MM36, ff. 50v-54r
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical
Hymn at First Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Mary

A Capella Portuguesa, Owen Rees (conductor)
Recording details: February 1994
The Church of St John the Evangelist, Oxford, United Kingdom
Produced by Arthur Johnson
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 1994
Total duration: 8 minutes 7 seconds

Cover artwork: Image of Christ in the church at Caminha.
 

Other recordings available for download

Cupertinos, Luís Toscano (conductor)

Reviews

‘A wonderful selection … the music is a real delight … the singing is uniformly excellent and inspiring’ (Early Music Review)
Exhibiting an unusually small range of just seventeen notes across four mixed voices is Cristo's setting of Ave maris stella, the Office Hymn at Marian Vespers, whose odd-numbered stanzas are present, in a polyphonic version, between folios 50v and 54r of MM 36.

from notes by Luís Toscano © 2022
English: Maria João Vieira

Other albums featuring this work

Cristo: Magnificat, Marian Antiphons & Missa Salve regina
Cupertinos, Luís Toscano (conductor)
Studio Master: CDA68393 Early Choral Music OffersStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

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