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Summary:

This groundbreaking program from Geoffrey Webber's consistently inventive choir seeks to recreate three distinct sound-worlds: seventh Century hymns from Iona, tenth Century chants from Celtic foundations in Switzerland, and fourteenth century Columban antiphons from the Inchcolm Libellus.

Table of Contents:

• Os mutorum, lux cecorum : office of St Columba (3:06)
• Loquebar de testimoniis tuis : mode 5 introit (3:09)
• River Erne horn duet : improvisation (4:30)
• Adiutor laborantium : alphabetic hymn (3:26)
• Sanctorum piissime Columba : office of St Columba (3:19)
• Lauda anima mea Dominum : mode 8 alleluia (1:43)
• Noli Pater : prayer for protection (4:53)
• Carne solutus pater Columba : antiphon with Psalm 100 (4:41)
• Amen dico vobis : mode 1 communion (3:23)
• Liberasti nos Domine : mode 7 gradual (3:24)
• Cantemus in omni die : hymn (with Simon O'Dwyer, bodhrán) (3:38)
• Altus prosator : alphabetic hymn (25:05)
• Volens Ihesus linire : office of St Columba (3:49)
• Laudate Dominum : Psalm 150 (3:30)
• The desperate battle of the birds : solo for Lethendy triplepipe / Barnaby Brown (4:30).

Contributors:

Brown, Barnaby , instrumentalist, composer

O'Dwyer, Simon , instrumentalist

Frame, Malachy , instrumentalist

Webber, Geoffrey , conductor

Gonville and Caius College > Choir , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

Latin

Language Notes:

Sung in Latin.

Other Related Resources:

Source record: In praise of Saint Columba (Edinburgh, UK : Delphian, [2014] — OCLC Number 883867415)

Subjects:

Columba, Saint, 521-597 — Songs and music

Sacred vocal music — Scotland — 500-1400

Sacred vocal music — Ireland — 500-1400

Hymns, Latin

Gregorian chants

Antiphons (Music)

Horn music (Horns (2))

Bagpipe music

Columba, Saint, 521-597

500-1400

Sacred vocal music

Scotland

Ireland

Genres:

Hymns

Gregorian chants

Antiphons (Music)

Songs and music

Performers:

Barnaby Brown, triplepipes (tracks 1, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15) and lyre (track 12) ; Simon O'Dwyer, Malachy Frame, medieval Irish horns (tracks 3 and 12) ; Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (all except the 2 instrumental works) ; Geoffrey Webber, director.

General Notes:

Recorded 2013 July 16-18 St Peter's Church, Horningsea, Cambridgeshire.
Description based on: Hard copy version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

Other Standard Numbers:

International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413701
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413702
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413703
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413704
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413705
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413706
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413707
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413708
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413709
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413710
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413711
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413712
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413713
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413714
International Standard Recording Code: GBEBL1413715
Publisher Number, Delphian: DCD34137

OCLC Numbers:

976009143