Palestrina / De Rore / Musica Secreta Sacred Hearts & Secret Music CD

This CD stands on it's own merits as an exceptional program of early sacred music, transcribed for and performed by the ethereally beautiful voices of Musica Secreta and Celestial Sirens. However, like their earlier CD (dda25062) it has an added rationale, as the 'virtual sound-track' to the superb new novel 'Sacred Hearts', by Sarah Dunant. The music on the CD refers directly to many of the scenes and events in the book, allowing the reader/listener to more fully absorb themselves into the ancient world and characters so wonderfully portrayed.

1. Cantabant Sancti Canticum Novum 2. Surge, Illuminare Jerusalem 3. Beata Agnes in Medio Flammarum 4. Amo Christum, in Cuius Thalamum Introivi 5. Agnes, Beatae Virginis 6. Kyrie 7. Gloria 8. Credo 9. Sanctus 10. Agnus Dei 11. Sequenza in Onore Di Sant' Agnese 12. Magnificat Sexti Toni 13. Stans Beata Agnes in Medio Flammagum 14. Alma Redemptoris Mater 15. Lectio I 16. Lectio II 17. Lectio III 18. Regina Caeli Laetare