Catholic liturgical music is serious, solemn, transcendent, but Catholic musicians are never more fun and inspiring than when they are talking about what they love most. This is what happens at sacred music events around the world: the social and intellectual are critically important elements. The musicians (and music enthusiasts) at the Chant Café, a project of the
Church Music Association of America, bring that sense of life and love to the digital world. As St. Augustine said, "Cantare amantis est."
Among the contributors:
Also past contributors:
Jeffrey Tucker, writer, editor, entrepreneur, musician |
archiveNick Gale (1975-2015), organist, choral director, for 13 years Master of the Music at the Cathedral of St. George in Southwark |
archiveBen, schola director and organ student |
archive
e-mail:
contact@chantcafe.com
What a beautiful piece of music! The Regina Coeli, however, is the Marian antiphon for the Easter season.
of course you are right. I must look for an Ave Regina Caelorum. Post fixed.
It's beautiful, but I don't know what to think of this. Too ornamental. Would you use it for the liturgy? or for a concert?
It's pure speculation on my part but I'm guessing it was written for liturgical performance in its time but that is not our time. I would love to hear this live but I would not likely schedule it in liturgy.
Jaroussky is just an incredible vocalist. Watch his "Pianti Sospiri" on YouTube. You won't be disappointed.
Too ornamental? Explain, please….
Too ornamental. You know – "too many notes" – as per Amadeus :-). Sorry – I couldn't resist.
Yes, too many notes like Amadeus, They are not definitely chant melismas.
Wonderful! It would go well as the Marian anthem at the end of mass.
Marian anthem at the end of mass? Could people participate in singing it?
Marian anthem at the end of mass, Ian? Since when has that been the Church's tradition?
The Marian anthem of the season is traditionally sung after Vespers and/or Benediction and Compline. At all the Sunday EF Masses at which I have recently sung it is sung immediately after the Domine Salvam Fac. In my parish the PP wanted it sung after the OF Mass on Sunday morning and I was happy to oblige.
It's certainly a Carmelite tradition, Copernicus, and I've also occasionally encountered it in non-Carmelite parishes. It's no different, in a sense, from having a non-Marian hymn after the mass is ended, which is pretty much common practice wherever hymns are sung at mass.
… as for particapation, Anon., some of the Marian anthems are better known than others, but where they are sung regularly according to season, it's not unknown for some Catholics to prove Thomas Day wrong (tho' I don't see the necessity for that).
What a magnificent version of the Regina Coeli, but my favorite is the one by Mozart, that he wrote shortly after his marriage to Constanza Weber. It's a sublime work, very joyful, about 8 minutes long. I am sure it's on Youtube if anyone wants to hear it.
Isn't operatic style singing banned in the liturgy? (I believe it was Pope Pius X) Is it allowed now?