Artist: Siglo de Oro, Patrick Allies
Album: The Mysterious Motet Book of 1539
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:07:11
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1,19 GB

Tracklist:

1-1. Siglo de Oro – Salus populi ego sum (05:09)
1-2. Siglo de Oro – Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes (03:37)
1-3. Siglo de Oro – Apparens Christus (08:28)
1-4. Siglo de Oro – Laetare sancta mater ecclesia (04:32)
1-5. Siglo de Oro – Peccavi super numerum arenae maris (05:34)
1-6. Siglo de Oro – Pater noster – Ave Maria (07:45)
1-7. Siglo de Oro – Haec dies quam fecit (06:18)
1-8. Siglo de Oro – Exsurge quare obdormis (06:47)
1-9. Siglo de Oro – Postquam impleti sunt dies purgationis Mariae (05:39)
1-10. Siglo de Oro – Ave et gaude gloriosa virgo (02:37)
1-11. Siglo de Oro – Veni electa mea (05:32)
1-12. Siglo de Oro – Laus Deo, pax vivis (05:06)

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In the late 1530s, Milanese composer Hermann Matthias Werrecore assembled a collection of sacred music and sent it across the Alps to the publisher Peter Schoeffer in Strasbourg. In making the journey from staunchly Catholic Milan to newly Protestant Strasbourg, the repertoire in question became cross-confessional. What was the purpose of publishing a motet book in a German imperial city where Latin choral singing no longer took place?

Siglo de Oro have collaborated with Dr. Daniel Trocmé-Latter (University of Cambridge) to showcase works from this puzzling volume, setting motets by Nicolas Gombert, Jacquet of Mantua, Jacques Arcadelt and Adrian Willaert alongside less familiar names such as Simon Ferrariensis and the enigmatic Johannes Sarton.

The resulting recording exhibits the combination of meticulous musicological research and finely crafted, sonorous singing that their previous Delphian albums have led us to expect.