ADRIAEN WILLAERT

Vespro Della Beata Vergine

Capilla Flamenca

1. Deus in adiutorium meum intende Gregorian chant 1’02

2. Toccata del ottavo tono Annibale Padovano 3’48

3. Benedicta es - Per illud ave a 7 Adriaen Willaert 7’05

4. Ricercar I a 4 Adriaen Willaert 4’35

5. Dixit Dominus (ps. 109) a 8 Jachet de Mantua - Adriaen Willaert 6’31

6. Laudate pueri (ps. 112) a 8 Adriaen Willaert 3’54

7. Ricercar primo a 3 Adriaen Willaert 5’18

8. Laetatus sum (ps. 121) a 4 Jachet de Mantua - Adriaen Willaert 6’50

9. Nisi Dominus (ps. 126) a 4 Jachet de Mantua - Adriaen Willaert 5’22

10. Ricercar settimo a 3 Adriaen Willaert 4’12

11. Lauda Jerusalem (ps. 147) a 8 Adriaen Willaert 4’45

12. Ave maris stella a 6 Gregorian chant - Adriaen Willaert 7’42

13. Ricercar X a 4 Adriaen Willaert 5’15

14. Magnificat (aliis temporis) a 4 Gregorian chant - Adriaen Willaert 8’27

15. Benedicamus Domino in laude a 4 Adriaen Willaert - Gregorian 1’34

16. Toccata del terzo e quarto tono (Annibale Padovano) 2’59

CAPILLA FLAMENCA

Rob Cuppens, Marnix De Cat: countertenors

Jan Caals, Tore Denys, Govaart Haché,

Laurens-Alexander Wyns: tenors

Lieven Termont: baritone

Dirk Snellings: bass

Joris Verdin: organ (Bologna, Basilica di San-Petronio)

Dirk Snellings: direction

This year we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the death of the Flemish composer Adriaen Willaert, who had been maestro di cappella of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice long before Monteverdi occupied the post; Willaert was also the inventor of the Venetian polychoral technique, with choral groups placed in the various galleries of the church.

CAPILLA FLAMENCA has chosen the various Psalms and the Magnificat that form his Marian Vespers from his extensive body of sacred music. The organ also plays between the various choral interventions, in keeping with musical practice of the time; Joris Verdin recorded these pieces on the Lorenzo da Prato organ (ca. 1475) in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna.

Ricercar RIC325