REQUIEMFrancisco Guerrero
Orchestra of the Renaissance Richard Cheetham
GCD 921402
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Performing artists
Orchestra of the Renaissance directed by Richard Cheetham
Michael Noone, guest conductor
Josep Cabré and Simon Davies solo plainchant Charles Humphreys, countertenor Fergus MacLusky, countertenor Christopher Watson, tenor Warren Trevelyan-Jones, tenor Simon Davies, tenor Tom Phillips, tenor Charles Gibbs, bass Robert Evans, bass
Jean-Pierre Canihac, cornett Beatrice Delpierre, shawm Francis Mercet, shawm Richard Cheetham, sackbut Patrick Jackman, sackbut William Lyons, dulcian Siobhán Armstrong, harp Raphael Mizraki, tabor Alastair Ross, organ
Production details
Playing time: 78'21 Recorded in the Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London, in February 1999 Engineered, edited and mastered by Carlos Céster Mastering assistant: Isidro Matamoros Produced by Emilio Moreno and Carlos CésterDesign: Carlos Céster Booklet essay: Michael Noone (English) Translations into Spanish, French, German
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FRANCISCO GUERRERO (1528-1599)
Requiem.Mass and Burial Service for Francisco Guerrero, Seville Cathedral 1599
MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS1 GUERRERO Quand'os miro, mi Dios2 GUERRERO Introit3 GUERRERO Kyrie4 PLAINCHANT Collect5 PLAINCHANT Epistle6 GUERRERO Gradual7 GUERRERO Tract: Absolve, domine8 PLAINCHANT Sequence: Dies irae9 PLAINCHANT Gospel10 GUERRERO Offertory: Domine Jesu Christe11 PLAINCHANT Preface12 GUERRERO Sanctus13 CABEZÓN Tiento sobre Ad Dominum cum tribularer14 PLAINCHANT Pater noster15 GUERRERO Agnus Dei16 GUERRERO Communion: Luceat eis a 517 PLAINCHANT Postcommunion18 ESQUIVEL Processional: In paradisum
ABSOLUTIO SUPER TUMULUM 19 GUERRERO Hei mihi, Domine20 PLAINCHANT Prayer: Non intres in judicium21 GUERRERO Responsory: Libera me, Domine22 GUERRERO Kyrie23 DESPREZ Pater noster24 PLAINCHANT Prayer: Deus, qui inter apostolicos25 PLAINCHANT Antiphon: In paradisum
Following the revelatory release a couple of years ago of Morales en Toledo it is a great pleasure to welcome back Michael Noone and Ensemble Plus Ultra to Glossa for a further demonstration — in the music of Morales’ younger contemporary Francisco Guerrero — of Noone’s remarkable knack of uniting unknown music from recognized masters in superb performances underpinned by exemplary scholarship. Through his ongoing research in the Cathedral Archives in Toledo, Noone has discovered a group of six hymns by Guerrero (written when he was apprenticed to Morales), recording these in the church of San Miguel in Cuenca along with the previously-unrecorded Missa Super flumina Babylonis in the company of plainchant specialist Juan Carlos Asensio’s Schola Antiqua and the instrumentalists from His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts. [read more...]