Introducing, by kind permission of the Vatican, the first studio album ever to be recorded in the Sistine Chapel. “Cantate Domino” opens the door to some of the world’s most beautiful choral music, as well as into one of the most treasured sacred locations on earth. The album features the Chapel’s resident choir – one of the longest-established choirs anywhere in the world.

Based at the heart of the Vatican, this unique musical institution has a rich history through the centuries, stretching back to the Middle Ages. Featuring music written for Popes, and this – his choir – across the centuries.

This is an album of musicological interest and importance, as well as one containing some of the most beautiful choral music ever written, including world premiere recordings and previously unpublished works and editions by Palestrina, Allegri & de Victoria.

Tracklisting

1. Gregorian chant - Rorate caeli desuper (02:17)
Antiphona   Dominica quarta adventus; Is. 45, 8; Ps. 18 Graduale Romanum/Schola
2. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594) - Ad te levavi (02:55)
3. Orlando di Lasso (1532 – 1594) - Magnificat VIII toni (03:57)
4. Gregorian Chant - Lumen ad revelationem  gentium (06:17)
5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594) - Super flumina babilonis (03:08)
Ps. 137 Manuscript Sistina / Cantus; Tenore I; Tenore II; Basso
6. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Improperium (03:23)
7. Gregorio Allegri (1582 – 1652) - Miserere (10:13)
Secondo Codice Sistino del 1661 Ps. 51  11:06   Manuscript Sistina / Cantus; Altus (Tenore I); Tenore II; Tenore III; Basso
Graduale Romanum / Schola  1st worldwide recording (Codice 1661)
8. Gregorian Chant - Christus factus est pro nobis Responsorium graduale (02:35)  
Phil. 2, 8-9 Graduale Romanum / Schola
9. Felice Anerio - Christus factus est (02:42)
10. Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548 – 1611) - Popule meus Improperien Graduale Romanum (03:48)
Manuscript Sistina / Cantus; Altus (Tenore I); Tenore II; Basso
11. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Adoramus te, Christe (02:15)
12. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Sicut Cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum (02:37)
13. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Angelus Domini (02:24)
14. Orlando di Lasso - Jubilate Deo (01:33)
15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Constitues eos principes (02:40)
16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Tu es Petrus (06:38)