Alma redemptoris Mater

track name: Alma redemptoris Mater
album and band name: from Volume II: Concerti Sacri (1642) by Magnificat/Musica Omnia - The Cozzolani Project

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Volume II of the complete works of Chiara Magdalena Cozzolani contains all the works in her 1642 publication Concerti Sacri. This double CD set includes texts and English translations, liner notes by Robert Kendrick and album artwork by Nika Korniyenko. Volume II will ship in September 2011.

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about: Cozzolani included a setting of each of the four Marian Antiphons in her 1642 collection, Concerti sacri. "Alma redemptoris mater" is published for soprano and bass and for Magnificat's performance the bass part has been transposed up an octave

The antiphon Alma Redemptoris Mater is attributed to Herman Contractus (1013-1054), a monk who lived in Reichenau near Lake Constance. Its mention in The Prioress' Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, testifies to its popularity in England before Henry VIII. Contractus used phrases taken from the writings of St. Fulgentius, St. Epiphanius, and St. Irenaeus. At one time Alma Redemptoris Mater was briefly used as an antiphon for the hour of Sext for the feast of the Assumption, but in 1350 Pope Clement established the seasonal order of singing the four Marian antiphons at Compline and it has been sung since then during the period from the first Sunday in Advent until the Feast of the Purification.

Magnificat
Warren Stewart, artistic director

Catherine Webster, soprano
Deborah Rentz-Moore, mezzo-soprano
David Tayler, theorbo
Hannek van Proosdij, organ
lyrics: Text and English Translation

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli
Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.

Mother of Christ, hear thou thy people's cry
Star of the deep and Portal of the sky!
Mother of Him who thee made from nothing made.
Sinking we strive and call to thee for aid:
Oh, by what joy which Gabriel brought to thee,
Thou Virgin first and last, let us thy mercy see.
credits: from Volume II: Concerti Sacri (1642), released 27 November 2009
Peter Watchorn, producer
Joel Gordon, engineer and mixing
tags: tags: baroque vocal San Francisco
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