The Brabant Ensemble - A Monk's Life (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

As the monasteries of the German-speaking countries emerged from the ravages of the Reformation, they found themselves in quite a different religious landscape.
Gone were the days of absentee abbots who preferred hunting to chanting, or illiterate monks who feasted rather than fasted. In the wake of the Council of Trent, monks and nuns, friars and sisters, were expected to contribute to the religious regeneration of the Catholic Church, and to fnd a new sense of purpose for their cloistered existence. Music played an important part in this project, both as a tool of monastic discipline and as a source of spiritual joy. In a healthy religious institution the daily round of prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours, was sung diligently and devoutly with the correct melodies. Monks brushed up their skills in writing chant books, nuns introduced the Roman breviary, and novice masters and mistresses spent hours teaching the boys and girls Latin and singing. Towards the end of the sixteenth century many religious orders, especially the Benedictines and Augustinians, embraced polyphonic music for the celebration of solemn feasts, with singing, organ playing and even instruments. Masses, motets and Magnifcats by renowned contemporary composersand a good number of talented monks as wellnot only adorned the sacred spaces for the greater glory of God, but also reached out to the people beyond the cloister. Music was intertwined with the monastic existence, and this album, entitled A monk's life, charts the life cycle of a monk through the music he might have heard, sung or composed.

TRACKLIST

1. The Brabant Ensemble - I. Sponsa Dei
2. The Brabant Ensemble - II. Hic te collaudat
3. The Brabant Ensemble - De vita religiosa
4. The Brabant Ensemble - Deus in adiutorium
5. The Brabant Ensemble - I. Magnificat anima mea – Et exsultavit
6. The Brabant Ensemble - II. Quia respexit – Quia fecit
7. The Brabant Ensemble - III. Et misericordia eius – Fecit potentiam
8. The Brabant Ensemble - IV. Deposuit potentes – Esurientes implevit
9. The Brabant Ensemble - V. Suscepit Israel – Sicut locutus est
10. The Brabant Ensemble - VI. Gloria Patri – Sicut erat in principio
11. The Brabant Ensemble - Agimus tibi gratias
12. The Brabant Ensemble - Wer wollt den Wein nit lieben?
13. The Brabant Ensemble - I. Sacrificate sacrificium iustitiae
14. The Brabant Ensemble - II. Immola Deo
15. The Brabant Ensemble - I. Kyrie
16. The Brabant Ensemble - II. Gloria in excelsis Deo
17. The Brabant Ensemble - III. Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere
18. The Brabant Ensemble - Os iusti
19. The Brabant Ensemble - IV. Credo in unum Deum
20. The Brabant Ensemble - V. Et incarnatus est
21. The Brabant Ensemble - VI. Sanctus
22. The Brabant Ensemble - VII. Benedictus
23. The Brabant Ensemble - VIII. Osanna
24. The Brabant Ensemble - IX. Agnus Dei
25. The Brabant Ensemble - Veni Creator Spiritus
26. The Brabant Ensemble - I. Vana salus hominis / Dominus mihi adiutor
27. The Brabant Ensemble - II. Nil igitur / Dominus mihi adiutor
28. The Brabant Ensemble - In te Domine speravi
29. The Brabant Ensemble - Quis rutilat Triadis?
30. The Brabant Ensemble - Aeterno laudanda choro



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