Artist: Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
Album: Byrd: Infelix ego
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 49:47
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 870 MB

Tracklist:

01. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Emendemus in melius (03:46)
02. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones sacrae): Infelix ego (12:40)
03. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Gradualia, Book 1: Ave Maria (02:58)
04. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Peccantem me quotidie (03:58)
05. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Kyrie (01:15)
06. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Gloria (04:35)
07. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Credo (07:14)
08. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Sanctus (01:59)
09. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Benedictus (01:14)
10. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Mass a 5: Agnus Dei (03:04)
11. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Christe, qui lux es et dies (03:20)
12. Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe – Liber secundus sacrarum cantionum (Cantiones sacrae): Miserere mei, Deus (03:38)

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Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent present their third project for Phi focussing on vocal music of the Renaissance. This time, it is the English composer William Byrd (c.1540-1623) who is being honoured. The title of the programme is that of Byrd’s motet Infelix ego, one of the greatest artistic statements of the 16th century. Its text is a meditation on Psalm 50, written by the Dominican Girolamo Savonarola, a remarkable man who waged a campaign against the corrupt Medici family in Florence. Taking the form of several rhetorical questions and assertions, the text describes all the emotions felt by a tormented soul: guilt, fear, embarrassment, anger but above all the gift of deliverance upon acceptance of Christ’s mercy. Byrd seems to have felt a powerful emotional connection with the words.

The Collegium Vocale Gent also presents the Mass for 5 Voices and a selection of motets by Byrd, along with Alfonso Ferrabosco’s Peccantem me quotidie a5 and Philippus de Monte’s Miserere mei a5.