Venetia Mundi Splendor
The Oktoechos ensemble, a sophisticated female vocal ensemble led by the specialist Lanfranco Menga, in this CD presents a program entirely dedicated to the union of music and politics in the Venice of the early fifteenth century, time of its greatest economic growth and territorial expansion. The naval power of the “Serenissima” and the consequent commercial vitality of the Republic inevitably created the preconditions for a parallel artistic growth, witnessed by the contributions of the greatest artists of the time alternating within the Palatine Basilica of St. Mark at the service of the Dogi and the bishops, composing a great deal of celebratory music that exalted their power and that of the city itself: the city “where the merchants were kings, where Saint Mark was, where the Dogi were used to marry the sea with a ring”
Tracklist
Marchetto da Padova,
Ave Corpus Sanctum / Adolescens protomartir
Anonymous
Marce, Marcum Imitaris [Venice, 1365]
Ciconia, Johannes
Venecie, mundi splendor / Michael, qui Stena domus
Ut te per omnes coelitum
Gratiosus de Padua,
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Sanctus
Ciconia, Johannes
Petrum Marcello venetum / O Petre, antistes inclite
O Petre, Christi discipule
Beltrame Feragut,
Excelsa civitas Vincencia
Romano, Antonio Piacentino
Stirps Mocenico / Ducalis sedes
Aurea flamigeri
Credo
Carminibus festos / O requies populi
Hugo de Lantins,
Christus vincit
Gloria
Cristoforo de Monte,
Plaude decus mundi
Dufay, Guillaume
Ecclesie militantis
Anonymous
Viva san Marco
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