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Playing Time: 76’ 30” |
This CD offers a glimpse into the liturgical music of Pentecost Sunday, the feast that closes the Easter period. It contains some almost „compulsory” repertory themes – for example the Veni Creator Spiritus hymn – and also some less known offertory-verses of the mass (Offertoriale Triplex, 1985), or one of the sequences (Sancti Spiritus adsit nobis gratia) written by Notker Balbulus („Stammering” Notker), the famous Benedictine friar from Sankt Gallen, who died in 912.
The majority of the liturgical chants are interpreted in accordance with the Graduale Triplex, published by the Benedictine friars of Solesmes (France) in 1979. The interpretation tries to revive the graphic signs (neumas) of the 9-10th centuries, which – long before even inventing writing out in score – kept record of the manner and spirit of singing in liturgical worship in those times in Laon, Sankt Gallen and Einsiedeln codices.
The praise (laudes) of Pentecost Sunday morning is interpreted according to the well known Liber Usualis (still widely used in church) and Antiphonale Monasticum. The last track, the previously mentioned Notker Balbulus’ sequence is interpreted according to a manuscript from Sankt Gallen.
All tracks were recorded in the church of the former Benedictine Abbey (with the title of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary) from Cluj-Mănăştur, also known as the „Calvary-church”.