Delicacies from early music. Although Easter is already a few weeks behind us, today we present a program full of Easter music. The main course is the Missa Paschalis by Ludwig Senfl from the sixteenth century, but we start in the twelfth century with an organum by Leoninus.
Leoninus (fl. second half of the 12th century)
From the Magnus Liber Organi:
1 Alleluia Pascha nostrum
Red Byrd and Capella Amsterdam
(cd: Magister Leoninus – Sacred music from 12th century Paris. Hyperion Records CDA66944, 1997)
Ludwig Senfl (1486 – 1542)
2 Missa Paschalis
– Kyrie
– Gloria
– Sanctus
– Benedictus
– Agnus Dei
Choir of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge and QuintEssential conducted by David Skinner
(cd: Ludwig Senfl – Missa Paschalis, Motetten & Lieder. Obsidian CD704, 2009)
Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594)
3 Aurora lucis rutilat
4 Surgens Jesus
5 Christus resurgens
Pro Cantione Antiqua conducted by Bruno Turner
(cd: Orlandus Lassus – Requiem & Music for Easter Sunday. Musical Concepts, 2010 / recording from 1981)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1529 – 1594)
6 Haec dies quam fecit Dominus
7 Expurgate vetus fermentum
8 Victimae Paschali laudes
9 Crucem sanctam
Addition:
Cesare Bendinelli (1524 – 1617)
10 Fanfarria
La Grande Chapelle conducted by Albert Recasens
(cd: La fiesta de Pascua en Piazza Navona. Lauda Musica LAU012, 2012)
Image: Ludwig Senfl
