Pedro de Cristo: Magnificat, Marian Antiphons; Missa Salve regina

by Cupertinos, Luis Toscano

Overview

Portuguese composer Pedro de Cristo is nowhere near as familiar as Duarte Lobo or Manuel Cardoso, who may show up on general concerts of Renaissance choral music. Cristo's music was never published and was largely lost to history until some painstaking research work, described in the booklet of this Hyperion release. That is likely to change after this 2022 release by the eight-voice choir Cupertinos, which made classical best-seller charts late that year. The music is lovely, with the limpid, reverential treatment of text found in the works of Cristo's greatest Spanish contemporaries. There are long homophonic stretches in the motets that have a starkly emotional effect. The Missa Salve regina, whose motet exemplar is included, is more thoroughly polyphonic, but Cristo's orientation toward directness and clarity remains. Sample the gorgeous Crucifixus section. The program is framed by two-choir pieces, and it is interesting how Cristo offers antiphonal effects even in the smaller pieces. In the polychoral works, the small choir is underpowered in the imposing Basilica do Bom Jesus in Braga, Portugal, but otherwise, Cupertinos is an extraordinary group that executes the black-belt eight-voice configuration brilliantly. For many Renaissance music lovers, this album will be a wonderful discovery. ~ James Manheim

Product Details

Release Date:	12/02/2022
Label:	Hyperion
UPC:	0034571283937
Rank:	185847

Tracks

1. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Magnificat anima mea Dominum
2. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Quia respexit
3. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Et misericordia eius
4. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Deposuit potentes
5. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Suscepit Israel
6. Magnificat octavi toni, 8vv~Gloria
7. Salve regina, 4vv~Salve regina mater misericordiae
8. Salve regina, 4vv~Ad te suspiramus
9. Salve regina, 4vv~Et Jesum benedictum fructum
10. Salve regina, 4vv~O clemens
11. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Kyrie. Kyrie I
12. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Kyrie. Christe
13. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Kyrie. Kyrie II
14. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Gloria. Gloria in excelsis Deo
15. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Gloria. Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere
16. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Credo. Credo in unum Deum
17. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Credo. Crucifixus
18. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Credo. Et ascendit
19. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Sanctus. Sanctus
20. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Sanctus. Benedictus
21. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Sanctus. Osanna
22. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Agnus Dei. Agnus Dei I
23. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Agnus Dei. Agnus Dei II
24. Missa Salve regina, 4vv~Agnus Dei. Agnus Dei III
25. Quae est ista, 5vv
26. Alma redemptoris mater, 4vv~Alma redemptoris mater
27. Alma redemptoris mater, 4vv~Tu quae genuisti
28. Ave regina caelorum, 4vv~Ave regina caelorum
29. Ave regina caelorum, 4vv~Gaude gloriosa
30. Stabat mater, 4vv~Stabat mater dolorosa
31. Stabat mater, 4vv~Cuius animam genenton
32. Regina caeli, 4vv~Regina caeli laetare
33. Regina caeli, 4vv~Ora pro nobis
34. Beata Dei genitrix, 5vv
35. Sancta et immaculata, 4vv~Sancta et immaculata
36. Sancta et immaculata, 4vv~Benedita tu in mulieribus
37. Sancta et immaculata, 4vv~Gloria
38. Beata viscera Mariae, 4vv~Beata viscera Mariae
39. Beata viscera Mariae, 4vv~Quia hodie
40. Beata viscera Mariae, 4vv~Dies sanctificatus
41. Beata viscera Mariae, 4vv~Quia hodie
42. Ave maris stella, 4vv~Ave maris stella
43. Ave maris stella, 4vv~Solve vincla reis
44. Ave maris stella, 4vv~Virgo singularis
45. Ave maris stella, 4vv~Sit laus Deo Patri
46. Virgo prudentissima, 4vv
47. Ave Maria, 8vv~Ave Maria
48. Ave Maria, 8vv~Spiritus Sanctus
49. Ave Maria, 8vv~Ideoque quod nascetur

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Cupertinos   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus
Luis Toscano   Primary Artist,Cantor,Conductor,Tenor (Vocal)
Almeno Goncalves   Cantor,Tenor (Vocal)
Eva Braga Simoes   Soprano (Vocal)
Gabriela Braga Simoes   Cantor,Alto (Vocals)
Joana Castro   Soprano (Vocal)

Technical Credits

Pedro de Cristo   Composer
Will Brown   Editing
Simon Perry   Executive Producer
Todd Harris   Booklet Editor
Marie-Stella Paris   Liner Note Translation
Friedrich Sprondel   Liner Note Translation
Dave Rowell   Engineer
Andre Cepeda   Photography
Luis Toscano   Editing,Liner Notes
Josefa De Obidos   Cover Illustration
Maria Joao Vieira   Liner Note Translation
Paulo Estudante   Liner Notes
Adrian Peacock   Recording Producer
Jose Abreu   Liner Notes