Artist: Palestrina / De Rore / Musica Secreta

Title: Sacred Hearts & Secret Music

Condition:

Format: CD

Release Date: 2009

Label: Divine Art

UPC: 809730507724

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

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

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.