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April 9th, 2010

HAVPCD148 – Gregorian Chant: Like the Sun in his Orb


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HAVPCD148 - Gregorian Chant: Like the Sun in his Orb 13th-century chant from Salisbury Cathedral
Disk Title Gregorian Chant: Like the Sun in his Orb
13th-century chant from Salisbury Cathedral
Choir Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge
Conductor Mary Berry
Location Salisbury Cathedral
Date Recorded January 1992
Audio Tracks 15

‘The Church of Salisbury shines like the sun in his orb among the Churches of the whole world in its divine services and those who minister in it,’ wrote Bishop Giles de Bridport in 1256. Indeed the so-called Rite of Sarum – ‘Sarum’ being a misreading of the common Latin abbreviation for ‘Sarisburia’ or ‘Salisbury’ – was a rite of great magnificence, justly admired well beyond the confines of the Cathedral that gave it its name. It is in fact a local medieval version of the Roman Rite, but a particularly splendid one.

Trk. Duration Track Title Composer
1 07:37 Aspiciens a longe
2 00:56 O Virgo virginum
3 00:51 Hodie Christus natus est
4 04:14 A solis ortus cardine
5 05:19 Centum quadraginta quattuor milia
6 01:42 Alma redemptoris mater
7 05:54 Crux fidelis
8 02:07 Venit ad Petrum
9 04:05 Tenebre facte sunt
10 18:03 Exultet
11 01:20 Regina celi
12 05:46 Salve festa dies
13 00:37 Gloria tibi Trinitas
14 02:28 Sancte Edmunde
15 06:18 Salve Regina

There was music for high voices as well as low in the rite of Salisbury – the boy choristers were responsible for certain chants which they sang by themselves. The rite became the model for countless secular (that is, non-monastic) cathedral and parish churches all over the British Isles, and was also adopted by religious of both sexes in houses that did not follow the monastic rule.

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