The music of 17th-century Portugal includes many still undiscovered masterpieces, and this CD presents several of these for the first time, including the magnificent six-voice Missa Paradisi portas by Manuel Cardoso. Owen Rees is at the forefront of research and performance of early Portuguese and Spanish music. He here embarks on the first recording of such repertory with the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford.

Track List

01. Audivi Vocem de Coelo (Duarte Lobo)
02. Missa Paradisi portas, Kyrie (Manuel Cardoso)
03. Missa Paradisi portas, Gloria (Manuel Cardoso)
04. Obra de falsas cromaticas de 1 tono (Anonymous)
05. Adjuva nos (Manuel Leitao de Aviles)
06. Missa Paradisi portas, Credo (Manuel Cardoso)
07. Pater peccavi (Duarte Lobo)
08. Paradisi portas (Anonymous)
09. Tiento de 1er tono de mano derecha (Pablo Bruna)
10. Missa Paradisi portas, Sanctus (Manuel Cardoso)
11. Sitivit anima mea (Manuel Cardoso)
12. Missa Paradisi portas, Benedictus (Manuel Cardoso)
13. Missa Paradisi portas, Agnus Dei (Manuel Cardoso)
14. Manducaverunt et saturati sunt (chant)
15. Tantum ergo sacramentum (Anonymous)
16. Heu, Domine (Estevao de Brito)
17. Concertato sobre o canto chao de Ave Maria (Gaspar dos Reis)
18. Jesu redemptor (Estevao Lopes Morago)
19. Verso do 1 tom (Martinho Garcia de Olague)
20. Quomodo sedet sola (Luis de Aranda)