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Saturday 2 November 2013

This seems promising - oh me of little faith.
The good Nuns at the Rosary Shrine informed us that their brothers at the house of studies had released an album of sacred music, but until I read the playlist... (yeah, yeah, I shoulda known I could trust their musical judgement, but what passes for sacred music in some catholic circles is scary. And not in a good Halloween-ween way.)
But getta loada THIS:
1. Cantate Domino (Ps 96:1–3) – Hans Leo Hassler (1564–1612)
2. Sancta et immaculata – Francisco Guerrero (1528–1599)
      ~ Christmas Responsory/Marian Feasts
3. Thine Are the Heavens (Ps 89:12, 15a)– Vincent Ferrer Bagan, O.P. (b. 1983)
      ~ Christmas Offertory
4. Hodie Christus natus est – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594)
      ~ Christmas Antiphon
5. Notas mihi (Ps 16:11) – Dominican chant
      ~ Communion for St. Thomas Aquinas
6. Veritas mea (Ps 89:25) – Oreste Ravanello (1871–1938)
      ~ Offertory for St. Joseph
7. O vos omnes (Lam 1:12) – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)
      ~ Passiontide Responsory
8. Ubi caritas – Chant, arr. James Junípero Moore, O.P. (b. 1976)
      ~ Holy Thursday Antiphon
9. Terra tremuit (Ps 76:9–10) – William Byrd (1540–1623)
      ~ Easter Offertory
10. If Ye Love Me (Jn 14:15–17) – Thomas Tallis (1505–1585)
       ~ Pentecost
11. O sacrum convivium (St. Thomas Aquinas) – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548–1611)
       ~ Corpus Christi Antiphon
12. In medio ecclesiae – Dominican chant
       ~ Officium for St. Dominic
13. To You Do We Come (Sub tuum) – Polish chant, adapt. The Monks of New Skete,
       arr. Dominican Nuns of Summit (used with permission)
14. Confitemini Domino (Ps 118:1) – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina  (1525–1594)
15. Round Us Falls the Night (William Romanis, alt.) – ROCHELLE, attrib. Adam Drese, harmony by S. S. Wesley

I haven't actually heard any of it, (library, doncha know,) but am looking forward to it very much.

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