Veni Domine: Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel (World Premiere Recordings) CD

UPC: 0028947975243 

MPN: 479 7524 

Brand Name: Deutsche Grammophon

Overview: Early Music Masterworks from the Vatican Archive

This historic Deutsche Grammophon release, Veni Domine: Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel, offers a contemplative collection of early music composed for the Advent and Christmas seasons. The recording features the Sistine Chapel Choir under the direction of Massimo Palombella, capturing the unique acoustic and spiritual intensity of music performed within the chapel walls.

The album is particularly notable for featuring world premiere recordings of works by composers like Dufay, Allegri, and Marenzio, transcribed directly from original manuscripts held within the Sistine Chapel Choir’s unique archive in the Vatican Library. This research provides new perspectives on the repertoire. Adding to the historical significance, legendary mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli makes history by becoming the first woman ever to record with the Sistine Chapel Choir, performing Perotinus's beautiful Beata viscera. This CD is early music at its absolute finest.

Product Features

• Choir: Sistine Chapel Choir
• Chief Chorus Master: Massimo Palombella
• Special Guest: Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano (Track 2)
• Format: Audio CD
• Genre: Classical Music / Early Music / Renaissance / Sacred Choral
• Key Feature: Includes world premiere recordings from Vatican original manuscripts.
• Total Time: 64:36
• Release Year: $\copy$ 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Program Highlights: From Chant to Renaissance Polyphony

The program spans centuries, moving from simple Gregorian chant to the complex, shimmering polyphony of the Renaissance masters, all centered on the themes of Advent and the Nativity.

• GREGORIAN CHANT - Gaudete in Domino semper
• PEROTINUS - Beata viscera Mariae Virginis (Featuring Cecilia Bartoli)
• GREGORIAN CHANT/DUFAY - Conditor alme siderum
• DESPREZ - Missus est Gabriel
• PALESTRINA - Canite tuba in Sion - Rorate, caeli, desuper
• NANINO - Hodie nobis caelorum Rex - Gloria in excelsis Deo
• PALESTRINA - Hodie Christus natus est
• MOUTON - Quaeramus cum pastoribus
• VICTORIA - Quem vidistis, pastores? - Dicite, quidnam vidistis?
• PALESTRINA - Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis
• ALLEGRI - Nasceris, alme puer (World Premiere Recording)
• GREGORIAN CHANT/MARENZIO - Christe, Redemptor omnium (World Premiere Recording)
• VICTORIA - O magnum mysterium
• CLEMENS NON PAPA - Magi veniunt ab oriente - Magi, videntes stellam
• PALESTRINA - Reges Tharsis et insulae
• PALESTRINA - Diffusa est gratia

Publishers

• Label: Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
• Copyright: 
• 
• 2017 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
• Country of Manufacture: Made in the EU
• Cecilia Bartoli Appearance: Courtesy of Decca Music Group Limited

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