Vox Iberica I: Sons of Thunder / Donnersöhne
Music for St. James the Apostle (12th century)

CD (total time 73:41)

Recorded November 1989 in the church of St. Valentin, Roquemaure (F)

Released 1992 by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (RD 77199), in co-production with WDR Köln

Booklet 43 pp.

 

Vox Iberica – Sequentia’s long-term project to record music from three of Spain’s most important musical sources – begins with music from the so-called Codex Calixtinus, a 12th century manuscript containing liturgical chant and polyphony in honour of Saint James the Apostle, otherwise known as Santiago, whose relics have been venerated by pilgrims since the Middle Ages in the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. For this recording, the eight men’s voices of Sequentia join to record the complete polyphony found in this magnificent collection of sacred music, including some of the earliest polyphony to be clearly notated in a European source.