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Track(s) taken from CDA66735

Vexilla regis prodeunt

composer
Anonymous - Medieval
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical

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: 1 minutes 7 seconds

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

Other recordings available for download

The Cambridge Singers, Sir John Rutter (conductor)

Reviews

‘A wonderful selection … the music is a real delight … the singing is uniformly excellent and inspiring’ (Early Music Review)
Vexilla regis has always been one of the most renowned of early hymns, its imperial imagery a vivid reminder of the Christianizing of the Roman empire (a vexilla is the banner at the head of a Roman legion). Reputedly this hymn was written in 569 to welcome a procession bringing a fragment of the ’ true Cross’ to the convent of Poitiers.

from notes by Collegium Records © 2000

Other albums featuring this work

Sing, ye Heavens - Hymns for all time
The Cambridge Singers, Sir John Rutter (conductor)
COLCD126Download only

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