Dorian Recordings

DOR-93237

Madrid 1752
Sacred Music from the Royal Chapel of Spain

Madrid Barroco
Baroque Orchestra of Madrid
Grover Wilkins, Music Director
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In a letter of 20 February, 1749, Sir Benjamin Keene, Ambassador to Spain from the Court of Saint James, reported that he had once again been to the Madrid opera, in the famed Coliseo del Buen Retiro. "Nothing was ever half as magnificent as the theater," he wrote.
Such was the environment in which the Spanish Court of the mid18th century enjoyed its musical life. But then we should not be surprised. For this was the time in Spain of Farinelli, by far the most celebrated castrato of his day, a time when the Queen's music teacher was Domenico Scarlatti, at a court into which would soon come another well-known Italian, Luigi Boccherini. …
- Grover Wilkins

José de Nebra (1702-1768):
Principio de Maitines de Navidad
Initium
[1.] Praesidens: Domine labia mea aperies.
Invitatorium
[2.] Chorus: Antiphona: Christus natus est nobis. *

Venite adoremus.
[3.] Soprano I et chorus: Venite, exultemus Domino
[4.] Tenor: Quoniam Deus Magnus Dominus
[5.] Chorus: Quoniam ipsius est mare
[6.] Alto: Hodie si vocem eius audieritis,
[7.] Duo, Soprano I et alto:

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto,
[8.] Chorus: Sicut erat
[9.] Hymnus: Iesu, redemptor omnium,

José de Nebra: Responsorium I
(Responsorium I, Nocturni I, Nativitatis Domini 1752)
[10.] Chorus: Hodie nobis caelorum Rex de Virgine
[11.] Duo, sopranos et chorus: Aire de Pastoral:

Gloria in excelsis Deo
[12.] Chorus: Gaudet exercitus Angelorum,
[13.] Duo, sopranos et chorus:

Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto.
[14.] Chorus: Hodie nobis caelorum Rex

Francisco Courcelle (1705-1778):
Responsorium II
(Responsorium II, Nocturni III, Epiphaniae 1750)
[15.] Chorus: Videntes stellam
[16.] Chorus: et intrantes domum
[17.] Chorus: Et apertis
[18.] Soprano I: Stella, quam viderant Magi
[19.] Chorus: et intrantes domum
[20.] Chorus: Et apertis
[21.] Duo, soprano I et alto: Gloria Patri
[22.] Chorus: Et apertis thesauris suis

Francisco Courcelle: Responsorium III
(Responsorium III, Nocturni I, Epiphaniae 1750).
[23.] Chorus: Reges Tharsis.
[24.] Chorus: Reges arabum
[25.] Tenor: Omnes de Saba venient,
[26.] Chorus: Reges arabum
[27.] Duo, soprano I et alto: Gloria Patri
[28.] Chorus: Reges arabum

José de Nebra
[29.] Hymnus Sanctissimae Trinitati

Total Program Length: 67:33

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