Vesper psalms for 4 voices from the Manoscritto musicale 130 of the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, including alternate psalm verses & antiphons in chant (cf. "Victoria's] preparation for publication in Rome of ten plainchant-based Vespers psalms for four-part choir, which were copied in manuscript by Francisco Soto de Langa; apparently, however, Victoria's desire that they should be printed was never fulfilled"--Grove's); these are interspersed with some of the composer's published Marian motets.

"Although the psalms were not conceived for a single celebration or feast day, they are presented here following the sequence of an office of Vespers, which facilitates comprehension of their function"--Container.

Ed. recorded: by Esteban Hernández Castelló, p2003 (vesper psalms); Liber Usualis (antiphons); "for the reconstruction of the alternatim verses in plainchant ... we have used the Cantorino utile a novizzi ... published by Adriano Banchieri at Bologna in 1622 [& the] Intonaciones nuevamente ... published by Gonzalo Martinez de Bizcargui at Burgos in 1515"--Notes, p. 17.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Josef Cabré & Esteban Hernández Castelló in French, Spanish & English, and Latin vocal texts with French translations bound in container.

Recorded Feb. 25-28, 2008 in the church of the Couvent de la Santa Cruz d'Azkoitia (Guipuzcoa).

Psalms [a 4]. Dixit Dominus primi toni

Confitebor quarti toni

Beatus vir octavi toni

Laudate pueri sexti toni

Laudate Dominum tertii toni

Lauda Jerusalem septimi toni

Confitebor quarti toni

Beatus vir octavi toni "quatuor vocibus paribus"

Nisi Dominus sexti toni

Credidi sexti toni.

Motets. Sancta Maria succurre miseris : In festo Sanctae Mariae ad Nives (ed. 1572)

Quam pulchri sung gressus tui : In Conceptione Beatae Mariae (ed. 1572)

Senex puerum portabat : In purificatione Beatae Mariae (ed. 1572)

Ne timeas Maria : In Annuntiatione Beatae Mariae (ed. 1572)

Veni Sponsa Christi : In festis Virginum (ed. 1585)

Hymnus : Ave Maris stella : De Beata Virgine (ed. 1581)

Canticum ad b.V.M. : Magnificat secundi toni (ed. 1581)

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Songs and music.

Rome (Italy). Biblioteca nazionale centrale Vittorio Emanuele. Manoscritto musicale 130.

Colombina (Musical group)