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1. Hymnus Veni Creator Spiritus 2’53”
          Dominica Pentecostes – Missa in vigilia  
2. Introitus Caritas Dei 2’58”
3. Introitus Dum sanctificatus 3’56”
4. Alleluia Emitte Spiritum tuum 1’25”
5. Alleluia Dum complerentur 2’33”
6. Offertorium Emitte Spiritum tuum 5’00”
7. Communio Ultimo festivitatis die 3’20”
          Dominica Pentecostes – ad Laudes  
8. Deus in adiutorium meum intende 0’38”
9. Psalmus 92. cum antiphona Dum complerentur 2’40”
10. Psalmus 99. cum antiphona Spiritus Domini 2’28”
11. Psalmus 62. cum antiphona Repleti sunt omnes 3’44”
12. Canticum Benedicite omnia cum antiphona Fontes et omnia 6’16”
13. Psalmus 148. cum antiphona Loquebantur 5’12”
14. Capitulum et responsorium Spiritus Domini 1’48”
15. Hymnus Beata nobis gaudia et versiculus 3’53”
16. Benedictus cum antiphona Accipite Spiritum Sanctum 4’18”
17. Oratio et Benedicamus 1’29”
          Dominica Pentecostes – Missa in die  
18. Introitus Spiritus Domini 3’26”
19. Alleluia Emitte Spiritum tuum 1’32”
20. Alleluia Veni Sancte Spiritus 1’51”
21. Sequentia Veni Sancte Spiritus 2’15”
22. Offertorium Confirma hoc Deus 6’21”
23. Communio Factus est repente 2’50”
   
24. Sequentia Sancti Spiritus adsit nobis gratia 3’39”

                                                   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”.

Schola Gregoriana Monostorinensis, Cluj–Kolozsvár–Klausenburg
cond. by Tamás Jakabffy
recorded in 2003
Made in Romania