CDH55374 - Disc 1 Track 13 - Vultum tuum deprecabuntur - Hyperion Records

Vultum tuum deprecabuntur

composer

cycle of motets to run concurrently with the celebration of Mass; composed for Milan Cathedral probably between 1459 and 1472; 4vv; this reconstruction switches the probable order of the last two items and interpolates the Ave Maria and Tu lumen movements

Recordings

Josquin Des Prez: Missa Pange lingua & other works
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

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Willaert: Missa Mente tota & Motets
Cinquecento

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Details

Part 1. Introit substitute: Vultum tuum deprecabuntur

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 11 on CDH55374 [2'27] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 2. Gloria substitute: Sancta Dei genitrix

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 12 on CDH55374 [2'14] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 3a. Credo substitute: Intemerata virgo

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 13 on CDH55374 [3'51] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 3b. Offertory substitute: Ave Maria

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 14 on CDH55374 [2'54] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 4a. Sanctus substitute: O Maria

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 15 on CDH55374 [3'15] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 4b. Elevation motet: Tu lumen

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 16 on CDH55374 [0'57] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 5. After Elevation: Mente tota

author of text
Anonymous

Cinquecento

Track 1 on CDA67749 [4'04] (Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain)
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Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 17 on CDH55374 [4'03] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 6. Agnus Dei substitute: Christe, Fili Dei

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 18 on CDH55374 [3'31] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Part 7. Deo gratias substitute: Ora pro nobis

author of text
Anonymous

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)

Track 19 on CDH55374 [3'59] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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Vultum tuum deprecabuntur

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Josquin cannot have been much above the age of thirty when he wrote the motet cycle Vultum tuum deprecabuntur, and it may be a symptom of his still modest status as a singer at Milan and his relative inexperience as a composer that the work conforms so closely to established models. Like similar cycles written for Milan Cathedral by Compère, Gafurius, Gaspar van Weerbeke and others, the Vultum tuum deprecabuntur motets were intended to accompany the celebration of Mass, not as interludes but rather as a simultaneous sacred ‘concert’: in some of the Milanese cycles the various motets have actually been labelled ‘loco [= in place of the] Introitus’, ‘loco Gloria’, ‘loco Credo’, and so on. Strictly speaking, such substitution did not interfere with the liturgical act: provided that the celebrant spoke the correct liturgical texts, the choir was free to perform whatever it liked. In practice, few churches outside Milan adopted this curious practice. Although parts of Vultum tuum deprecabuntur found their way into the repertoires of other singers, there is no reason to believe that they were used in the Milanese fashion; most of the motets in the cycle address the Blessed Virgin Mary, and they could easily have been put to other devotional purposes. So scattered have the constituent parts of the cycle now become that their intended order is in some doubt. This performance follows the reconstruction by Patrick Macey, including the ‘little’ Ave Maria as the Offertory substitute and Tu lumen as the Elevation motet—neither being previously associated with the cycle.

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Details for CDH55374 track 13

Part 3a, Credo substitute: Intemerata virgo

Artists

Westminster Cathedral Choir

James O'Donnell (conductor)

ISRC

GB-AJY-92-61413

Duration

3'51

Recording date

13 March 1992

Recording venue

Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Mark Brown

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Josquin Des Prez: Missa Pange lingua (CDA66614)
Disc 1 Track 13
Release date: October 1992
Deletion date: January 2009
Superseded by CDH55374
Josquin Des Prez: Missa Pange lingua & other works (CDH55374)
Disc 1 Track 13
Release date: August 2011
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)