PILGRIMAGE TO SANTIAGO

A cappella choral music from the Twelfth century to the Seventeenth century

 

Music from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus, and by composers Tomás Luis de Victoria, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Guillaume Dufay, Cristobal Morales and Jean Mouton

 

The Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner

Recorded All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London - May 2005

 

In 2004, its fortieth anniversary year, the Monteverdi Choir under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner undertook a pilgrimage in song through France and Northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela, performing in the great abbeys and cathedrals along the way. The choir’s pilgrimage programmes focussed on the sacred polyphony of the Iberian peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these works being set in a broader European context through the inclusion of pieces by composers who worked outside Spain and Portugal, but whose music was probably known there. This recording, the second of two made on the choir’s return to London, offers a chance to share their experience of living inside the music along El camino de Santiago.

Monteverdi Productions SDG701