Product Description
Ancient petitions for mercy and peace
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The Esoterics is proud to present PENITENTIA, its fourth CD that features works of the Lenten liturgy by Poulenc, Pizzetti, d’Hollander, Herbolsheimer, and more.
Francis Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour un temps du pénitence and Bern Herbolsheimer’s Seven last words depict the final moments of Christ’s agony.
As the cloak of night descends upon this Lenten vigil, Tre composizioni corali by Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti and Trois nocturnes by Belgian composer Geert d’Hollander remind us that oppression often inspires the most profound spiritual contemplation.
One eloquent result of such reflection was Precatio pro pace, an ancient poem by Janus Pannonius set by the Hungarian composer Miklós Pászti.
Another was the unparalleled Pro pace motets of South African composer John Joubert, who designed a triptych around the poems of three medieval mystics – Scottus, Vulgarius, and Abelard – each offering a personal plea for peace: a prayer for mercy from the universal destruction of the Black Death, a lament on the day mankind invented weaponry to harm itself, and an ode that recounts Christ’s Passion and Resurrection as the triumph of non-violent protest and ultimate pacifist victory.
Reviews
- PENITENTIA: ancient petitions for mercy and peace (CD Review)
January/February 2006 – The American Record Guide
Track listing
Tre composizioni corali (1942-1943) | Ildebrando Pizzetti | |
1 | Cade la sera | |
2 | Ululate, quia prope est dies Domini | |
3 | Recordare, Domine | |
Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1938-1939) | Francis Poulenc | |
4 | Timor et tremor | |
5 | Vinea mea electa | |
6 | Tenebræ factæ sunt | |
7 | Tristis est anima mea | |
Seven last words (1998-2000) | Bern Herbolsheimer | |
8 | Father, forgive them | |
9 | Amen dico tibi | |
10 | Mulier, ecce filius tuus | |
11 | Eli, lama sabatini? | |
12 | I thirst | |
13 | Consummatum est | |
14 | Father, into thy hands | |
Trois nocturnes (1990) | Geert D’hollander | |
15 | Nox et tenebræ | |
16 | Caligo terræ scinditur | |
17 | Sunt multa fucis | |
Precatio pro pace (1975) | Míklós Pászti | |
18 | Ad Martem | |
19 | Ad Dominum | |
Pro pace motets (1955-1959) | John Joubert | |
20 | Libera plebem | |
21 | O tristia secla priora | |
22 | Solus at vicitmam |