Baroque Voices - vocal ensemble

How Great is the Pleasure

track list

1. How great is the pleasure - H. Harrington (c.1786)
2. Angelus ad Virginem (Gabriel fram Heven-King) - anon., English (13th Century)
3. Angelus ad Virginem (Gabriel fram Heven-King) - anon., English (13th Century)
4. Dappoi che’l sole - Niccolo da Perugia (later 14th Century)
5. Praemii dilatio - anon., French (c.1210)
6. Quam pulchra es - John Dunstable (c.1385-1453)
7. Ego flos campi - Clemens non Papa (c.1500-1556)
8. Confitemini Domino - Alessandro Costantini (c.1581-c.1657)
9. Deus canticum novum - Giovanni Matteo Asola (c.1540-1609)
10. Hor care canzonette - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
11. Il mio martir - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
12. The Blacksmith – Trad., arr. Pepe Becker (1994)
13. Female Rambling Sailor - Trad., arr. Pepe Becker (1994)
14. Galbally Farmer - Trad., arr. Pepe Becker (1994)
15. Arise, get up, my dear - Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
16. O, what shall I do? - John Wilbye (1574-1638)
17. O Virgo splendens - anon., Spanish (14th Century)
18. Tota pulchra es - Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
19. Ave verum - Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
20. Exite Sion filiae - Carl Czerny (1791-1857)
21. Taurus I: Night and Morning - Pepe Becker (b.1966), May 2001
22. Songs V & VII from ‘Love sonnets of Michelangelo’ - Jack Body (b.1944), 1982
23. Lullaby III from ‘Five Lullabies’ - Jack Body (b.1944), 1989
24. Malolo - Annea Lockwood (b.1939)
25. When will we know? - Pepe Becker (b.1966), July 1986, arr. June 2001 for ensemble

Baroque Voices

Sopranos: Pepe Becker, Jane McKinlay, Lauren Armishaw, Joanne Hodgson
Altos: Andrea Cochrane, Christopher Warwick

Live concert recorded by Anthony Donovan (of Karori, Wellington) in Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington, July 2001.

Full programme notes and translations can be downloaded here