The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice – A Monk’s Life (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:32 minutes | 2,62 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Hyperion Records
As the monasteries of the German-speaking countries emerged from the ravages of the Reformation, they found themselves in quite a different religious landscape.
Gone were the days of absentee abbots who preferred hunting to chanting, or illiterate monks who feasted rather than fasted. In the wake of the Council of Trent, monks and nuns, friars and sisters, were expected to contribute to the religious regeneration of the Catholic Church, and to fnd a new sense of purpose for their cloistered existence. Music played an important part in this project, both as a tool of monastic discipline and as a source of spiritual joy. In a healthy religious institution the daily round of prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours, was sung diligently and devoutly with the correct melodies. Monks brushed up their skills in writing chant books, nuns introduced the Roman breviary, and novice masters and mistresses spent hours teaching the boys and girls Latin and singing. Towards the end of the sixteenth century many religious orders, especially the Benedictines and Augustinians, embraced polyphonic music for the celebration of solemn feasts, with singing, organ playing and even instruments. Masses, motets and Magnifcats by renowned contemporary composersand a good number of talented monks as wellnot only adorned the sacred spaces for the greater glory of God, but also reached out to the people beyond the cloister. Music was intertwined with the monastic existence, and this album, entitled A monk’s life, charts the life cycle of a monk through the music he might have heard, sung or composed.
Tracklist:
1-01. The Brabant Ensemble – I. Sponsa Dei (03:29)
1-02. The Brabant Ensemble – Sponsa Dei: II. Hic te collaudat (03:31)
1-03. The Brabant Ensemble – De vita religiosa (03:47)
1-04. The Brabant Ensemble – Deus in adiutorium (02:17)
1-05. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: I. Magnificat anima mea – Et exsultavit (01:18)
1-06. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: II. Quia respexit – Quia fecit (01:19)
1-07. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: III. Et misericordia eius – Fecit potentiam (01:35)
1-08. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: IV. Deposuit potentes – Esurientes implevit (01:28)
1-09. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: V. Suscepit Israel – Sicut locutus est (01:31)
1-10. The Brabant Ensemble – Magnificat super Si ignoras te: VI. Gloria Patri – Sicut erat in principio (01:48)
1-11. The Brabant Ensemble – Agimus tibi gratias (02:17)
1-12. The Brabant Ensemble – Wer wollt den Wein nit lieben? (01:08)
1-13. The Brabant Ensemble – I. Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiae (01:50)
1-14. The Brabant Ensemble – Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiae: II. Immola Deo (02:20)
1-15. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: I. Kyrie (02:26)
1-16. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: II. Gloria in excelsis Deo (01:54)
1-17. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: III. Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere (02:15)
1-18. The Brabant Ensemble – Os iusti (02:40)
1-19. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: IV. Credo in unum Deum (02:22)
1-20. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: V. Et incarnatus est (03:46)
1-21. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: VI. Sanctus (01:36)
1-22. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: VII. Benedictus (01:01)
1-23. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: VIII. Osanna (00:45)
1-24. The Brabant Ensemble – Missa super Veni in hortum meum: IX. Agnus Dei (02:17)
1-25. The Brabant Ensemble – Veni Creator Spiritus (02:26)
1-26. The Brabant Ensemble – I. Vana salus hominis / Dominus mihi adiutor (01:52)
1-27. The Brabant Ensemble – Vana salus hominis: II. Nil igitur / Dominus mihi adiutor (01:47)
1-28. The Brabant Ensemble – In te Domine speravi (05:47)
1-29. The Brabant Ensemble – Quis rutilat Triadis? (05:46)
1-30. The Brabant Ensemble – Aeterno laudanda choro (04:03)
