Juan Garcia de Salazar, some of whose works were still performed in Spanish churches well into the nineteenth century was one of Spain's most important Baroque composers of religious music. Without attempting an exact liturgical reconstruction, this recording presents a coherent musical program for a contemporary Vespers service for Our Lady, based on an extant works by Salazar preserved in the Cathedral of Zamora. The instrumental movements are transcriptions of motets by Salazar and the full service is completed with organ verses by the de Olague and a Batalla by Ximenez, both of whom worked in more or less the same region as Salazar and by plainchant taken from a choirbook dated 1692.
2 Invitatorio: Deus in Adjutorium Meum - Domine Ad Adjuvandum Me
3 Antifona: Dum Esset
4 Salmo 109: Dixit Dominus
5 Motete: Quae Es Ista
6 Verso de Clarin I
7 Antifona: Laeva Ejus
8 Salmo 112: Laudate Pueri Dominum
9 Motete: O Gloriosa Virginum
10 Antifona: Nigra Sum
11 Salmo 121: Laetatus Sum
12 Motete: Sub Tuum Praesidium
13 Da Pacem, Domine
14 Antifona: Jam Heims
15 Salmo 126: Nisi Dominus
16 Motete: Vidi Speciosam
17 Verso de Clarin II
18 Antifona: Speciosa
19 Salmo 147: Lauda, Jerusalem, Dominum
20 Veni, Sponsa Christi
21 Himno: Ave Maris Stella
22 Batalla Del Sexto Tono
23 Antifona: Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris
24 Cantico B.V.M. Magnificat
25 Benedicamus Domino
26 Salve Reina de los Cielos (Salve de Romance)
Juan Garcia de Salazar, some of whose works were still performed in Spanish churches well into the nineteenth century was one of Spain's most important Baroque composers of religious music. Without attempting an exact liturgical reconstruction, this recording presents a coherent musical program for a contemporary Vespers service for Our Lady, based on an extant works by Salazar preserved in the Cathedral of Zamora. The instrumental movements are transcriptions of motets by Salazar and the full service is completed with organ verses by the de Olague and a Batalla by Ximenez, both of whom worked in more or less the same region as Salazar and by plainchant taken from a choirbook dated 1692.