SALAZAR: Complete Vespers of Our Lady - Ministriles de Marsias, Capilla Peñaflorida

Juan García de Salazar, some of whose works were still being performed in Spanish churches well into the nineteenth century, was one of Spain’s most important Baroque composers of religious music. Without attempting an exact liturgical reconstruction, this recording presents a coherent musical programme for a contemporary Vespers service for Our Lady, based on extant works by Salazar preserved in the Cathedral of Zamora. The instrumental movements are transcriptions of motets by Salazar and the full service is completed with organ verses by de Olagüe and a Batalla by Ximénez, both of whom worked in more or less the same region as Salazar, and by plainchant taken from a choirbook dated 1692.

Salazar, Juan Garcia de

 Regina Coeli (Entrada)

 Deus in adjutorium meum - Domine ad adjuvandum me (Invitatorio)

 Dum esset (Antiphon)

 Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109)

 Quae es ista (Motet)

Olague, Garcia de

 Verso de clarin I (organ)

Salazar, Juan Garcia de

 Laeva ejus (Antiphon)

Olague, Garcia de

 Laudate pueri Dominum (Psalm 112) (organ verses by G. de Olague)

Salazar, Juan Garcia de

 O gloriosa Virginum (Motet)

 Nigra sum (Antiphon)

 Laetatus sum (Psalm 121)