Cantiones sacrae (Gesualdo)


The Sacrae Cantiones of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa are two collections of motets published in 1603. The first volume consists of 19 motets for 5 voices, the second volume of 20 motets for 6 or 7 voices. The bassus and sextus of the second volume are lost, but were reconstructed by musicologist James Wood from 2008 to 2011 and recorded by Wood's Vocalconsort Berlin in August 2011.

Motet list

Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus Liber primus, Napoli, Costantino Vitale, 1603
  1. O vos omnes
  2. Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam
  3. Sancti Spiritus, Domine
  4. Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam
  5. Venit lumen tuum
  6. Illumina faciem tuam
  7. Maria, Mater gratiae
  8. Precibus et meritis
  9. Ave, dulcissima Maria
  10. Dignare me laudare te
  11. Ave Regina cœlorum
  12. Hei mihi Domine
  13. Tribulationem et dolorem
  14. Peccantem me quotidie
  15. Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
  16. Tribularer si nescirem
  17. Laboravi in gemitu meo
  18. Deus, refugium et virtus
  19. O Crux benedicta
Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 1603 - in fact Liber secundus
  1. Ad te levavi
  2. Adoramus te Christe
  3. Ardens est cor meum
  4. Assumpta est Maria
  5. Ave sanctissima Maria
  6. Da pacem Domine
  7. Discedite a me omnes
  8. Franciscus humilis et pauper
  9. Gaudeamus omnes
  10. Illumina nos
  11. Ne derelinquas me
  12. O anima sanctissima
  13. O beata Mater
  14. O oriens splendor
  15. O sacrum convivium
  16. Sana me Domine
  17. Veni Creator Spiritus
  18. Veni sponsa Christi
  19. Verba mea
  20. Virgo benedicta

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