Gardiner in the Footsteps of the Santiago Pilgrims

Pilgrimage to Santiago. Music from the twelfth-century Codex Calixtinus: Dum pater familias, Congaudeant Catholici, Alma perpetui, Psallat chorus celestium, O Venerande Apostoli, O lux et decus Hispaniae; from the Llibre Vermell: O virgo splendens; Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa O Quam Gloriosum, Motet O Quam Gloriosum, Vadam et Circuibo; Jacobus Clemens non Papa: O Maria vernans rosa, Sanctus; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Jesu Rex admirabilis; Guillaume Dufay: Rite majorem; Cristobal Morales: Parce mihi Domine; Orlande de Lassus: Iustorum animae; Jean Mouton: Nesciens mater. The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner. Producer: Isabella de Sabata (produced with the support of Junta de Castilla y Léon: Consejería y Turismo, Fundación Siglo para las Artes de Castilla y León); balance engineer: Mike Hatch. One CD, 78 minutes; recorded 6-8 May 2005, All Hallows, Gospel Oak (London); Soli Deo Gloria SDG 701

John Eliot Gardiner is not necessarily known for his recordings of Early Music. In fact, he made himself a name as one of the leading conductors of music by Handel, Bach and Mozart. As implied by the name of his choir, another composer of interest was, of course, Claudio Monteverdi. However, in the present recording Gardiner follows a new path – the path of the pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. From the Middle Ages, the burial place of the apostle James, who was also venerated as a half-brother of Jesus, in Galicia (in the North-West of Spain) was one of the main pilgrimage sites of the Christian World, third only to Jerusalem and Rome. In his introductory notes to this recording, Gardiner explains that he and his Monteverdi Choir had undertaken a ‘pilgrimage in song’ along the old pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella for the…

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