CDH55358 - Disc 1 Track 2 - Ave maris stella

Ave maris stella

composer

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)

1600; alternatim with chant from Psalterium chorale / Una cum Hymnario toto, Venice, 1585, fol.124r

author of text

Anonymous

Hymn at First Vespers on Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Recordings

Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam & other sacred music

Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)

Buy by post £6.99 CDH55358 Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Details

Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)

Track 2 on CDH55358 [6'24] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Victoria set the Hymn Ave maris stella twice and published one version in 1581 and this second one in 1600. Alternate verses are sung to plainsong (in one of the many variants of this memorable tune) and the polyphony paraphrases and elaborates it. Ave maris stella is the Hymn at First Vespers on Feasts of the Blessed Virgin.

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Details for CDH55358 track 2

Artists

Westminster Cathedral Choir

David Hill (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-88-12902

Duration

6'24

Recording date

23 March 1984

Recording venue