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Track(s) taken from CDH55313

Trahe me post te, virgo Maria

composer
Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
1555; 5vv
author of text
Bible
Song of Songs 1: 3, adapted to form a Marian Antiphon

Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O'Donnell (conductor)
Recording details: March 1997
Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: September 1997
Total duration: 4 minutes 26 seconds

Cover artwork: Stained glass window depicting the Annunciation in Seville Cathedral (1534). Arnao de Vergara (?-?)
 

Other recordings available for download

The Queen's Six
This work is a Marian motet adapted from the Song of Songs in which Guerrero symbolically has the second alto ‘drag’ its twin, the top voice, after it—a canon ad tertiam—one and a half bars behind and a third above. Among the effects this creates is the beautiful ‘lift’ at 'carissima in delitiis'. This poetic work is surely a jewel in Guerrero’s crown.

from notes by Bruno Turner © 2020

Other albums featuring this work

Journeys to the New World
The Queen's Six
Studio Master: SIGCD626Download onlyStudio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

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