Kyrie: Ars Gregoriana 10

Kyrie: Ars Gregoriana 10

Artist: Choralschola of Dusseldorf
Item number: AG101
Category: Gregorian
Chant Type: Gregorian
Language: Latin
Label: Motette
Period: Medieval
Length: 70'25
Release date: 1992
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1. Lux et origo

2. Te Christe rex supplices

3. Kyrie fons bonitatis

4. Kyrie Deus sempiterne

5. Rector cosmi pie

6. Cunctipotens gen. Deus

7. Kyrie Magn. Deus potentiae

8. Kyrie rex splendens

9. De angelis

10. Cum iubilo

11. Alme Pater

12. Orbis factor (A)

13. Orbis factor (B)

14. Pater cuncta

15. Stelliferi conditor orbis

16. Iesu redemptor

17. Dominator Deus

18. Kyrie salve

19. Deus genitor alme

20. Summe Deus

21. Splendor aeterne

22. Firmator sancte

23. O Pater excelse

24. Kyrie Hispanicum

25. Kyrie Germanicum


In the series devoted to the forms of Gregorian chant, this disc contains 31 settings of the Kyrie (three more will be found on a supplementary disc in the series). Although over 200 Kyries have been found in medieval manuscripts, only these settings are printed in modern editions. Several of these that are available in liturgical books have only been recorded once before this.

By: Fr. Jerome Weber

Heard in sequence, this disc offers an interesting demonstration of the different formats of Kyrie composition. The simplest Kyrie uses three identical Kyries, three identical Christes, two more Kyries and a slightly embellished final Kyrie, while later settings introduced degrees of variety to the setting of the nine invocations.