O Rose So Red
Melbourne based Schola Cantorum perform a program of chants, songs and motets used to capture the nature of Mary over the course of more than a millennium.
Gary Ekkel conductor
Ross Mitchell violin
Fiona Furphy cello
Elizabeth Anderson chamber organ
Hieronymus Praetorius composer
Jan Dismas Zelenka composer
Pérotin composer
John Dunstable composer
Johannes Ockeghem composer
Francisco Guerrero composer
Tomás Luis de Victoria composer
Richard Dering composer
The red rose is one of the most enduring images of the Virgin Mary. It has wide ranging associations with the fertility of the Madonna, the beauty of the bride of Christ, the fragrances of Heaven, the passion and romance of the Troubadour, the poignancy of the crown of thorns and the rich colour of spilt blood. Like the rose, the music used to depict or venerate Mary is varied.
Melbourne based Schola Cantorum directed by leading Australian Early Music interpreter Gary Ekkel, perform a program of chants, songs and motets used to capture the nature of Mary over the course of more than a millennium.
Reviews
…The high point of the music-making here is the spirited performance of five Marian antiphons by Jan Dismas Zelenka, a Bohemian composer working in baroque Dresden.
For quiet meditation, pure moving music portraying the life of the Virgin Mary is beautifully captured by Schola Cantorum
nicely programmed ... an enjoyably 'real' performance and a most pleasant disc.
Artists
Gary Ekkel
Gary Ekkel is a leading Australian interpreter of choral and Early Music.
Schola Cantorum of Melbourne
Schola Cantorum of Melbourne has established a reputation for presenting sacred music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque together with Gregorian chant in historical and innovative contexts.
Audio preview
Tracks
- Ex semine Abrahe / Ex semine Rosa / [Ex semine] Pérotin
- O Virgo splendens (Anonymous)
- Alma Redemptoris Mater (Gregorian Chant)
- Ave Regina caelorum (Gregorian Chant)
- Regina caeli (Gregorian Chant)
- Salve Regina (Gregorian Chant)
- Ave maris stella John Dunstable
- Alma Redemptoris Mater Johannes Ockeghem
- O Maria, vernans rosa Clemens non Papa
- Salve Regina Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Ave Virgo gloriosa Richard Dering
- Magnificat Hieronymus Praetorius
- Alma Redemptoris Mater Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Ave Regina caelorum (i) Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Ave Regina caelorum (ii) Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Regina caeli Jan Dismas Zelenka
- Salve Regina Jan Dismas Zelenka
Ave Maria (Gregorian Chant)
Performers
- Schola Cantorum of Melbourne
- Gary Ekkel
- Ross Mitchell
- Fiona Furphy
- Elizabeth Anderson · chamber organ
Composers
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Jan Dismas Zelenka wrote Baroque sacred music of striking harmonic inventiveness and contrapuntal mastery: masses, litanies, psalms and Marian antiphons whose passion still startles in performance.
John Dunstable
John Dunstable's surviving music is sacred and vocal: isorhythmic motets, mass movements and Marian antiphons built on full triadic harmony, with a liking for thirds and sixths that marked the English manner of the early fifteenth century.
Johannes Ockeghem
Johannes Ockeghem wrote masses, motets and chansons at the centre of early Renaissance polyphony. Surviving works include canonic and freely composed masses and Marian motets whose independent voices and wide-ranging bass lines shape the Franco-Flemish sound.
Clemens non Papa
Clemens non Papa’s motets are high Renaissance polyphony at full stretch: Marian devotion in O Maria, vernans rosa, Christmas wonder in the six-voice O magnum mysterium, and the stark grief of Vox in Rama.
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria wrote almost exclusively sacred polyphonic music to Latin texts: motets, Marian antiphons and Holy Week offices whose intensity and direct emotional line set him among the principal voices of the late Renaissance.
Where to listen
O Rose So Red is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
O Rose So Red is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- MD 3209
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Recording Engineer
- Martin Wright
- Editing Engineer
- Vaughan McAlley
- Venue
- Xavier College Chapel
- Release date
- 1998
- Musical work
copyright - © 1998 Move Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1998 Move Records
- Categories
- Choral, Early music
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574320923
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