Lauda Sion Salvatorem

On MISSION ROAD, the GRAMMY award-winning male vocal group Chanticleer - renowned worldwide as an orchestra of voices - performs a selection of authentic, rich vocal repertory from the Mexican Baroque canon and other musical treasures of New Spain. The music explores what native Californians would have heard 200 years ago, both inside and outside the mission walls, and is from a series of acclaimed concerts celebrating Chanticleer's 30th anniversary that were performed at nine historic California missions in 2008. The final concert took place at San Francisco's Mission Dolores, where Chanticleer staged their very first concert in 1978.

A fascinating contemporary realization of early music from El Camino Real, the audio CD's highlights include: Friar Juan Bautista Sancho's Misa en sol (Mass in G); premieres of selected works by Mexican Baroque master Manuel de Sumaya - America's Handel - only recently discovered in the archives of the Mexico City Cathedral; and various vocal compositions (introit, processional, alleluia, and recessional) by anonymous Spanish/Mexican composers of the late 18th century, including pieces that were originally part of the pageantry for feast days. On a number of selections, Chanticleer is accompanied by instrumentalists, blending folk and traditional idioms.

The DVD presents the 34-minute film Mission Road-Our Journey Back, a behind-the-scenes chronicling of Chanticleer's mission era-inspired journey with concert footage, one-on-one interviews and a stunning collection of mission landscapes. Sonically and visually, MISSION ROAD is an extraordinary way to experience the music of the mission era, with its rich sense of discovery and faith, performed in the context for which it was composed centuries ago.

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Music

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• Mission
• Road
• Chanticleer
• Mexican
• Baroque
• California
• Missions
• El
• Camino
• Real
• Manuel
• de
• Sumaya
• Juan
• Bautista
• Sancho

[2drooster]

Thanks to my Sisters in Texas who shared the Mission Trail with me when I visited them one Thanksgiving! It is south of San Antonio, where it begins!

[2drooster]

Thanks to my Sisters in Texas who shared the Mission Trail with me when I visited them one Thanksgiving!

[Shelovessherry]

Oh, glorious!! Would that each of us could journey back to our bittersweet sources!

[smilesgonewild]

I agree with you but at times wat is sung @ church isnt necesserally modern and they are actually performing @ Perpperdine University and this is near Pasadena idk where you live but check it out im gonna go see them

[mmedefarge]

A co-worker (who is Jewish) was singing what sounded like a simple, Protestant hymn. I asked him what it was & he said it was music sung in Temple. The words were in English so it just sounded to me like a typical church hymn from the U.S. or Britain. Protestant, Catholic, Jewish liturgical music has all sort of meshed into a beige sameness, one indistinguishable from the other. I rather enjoy hearing some of the traditional, Jewish music & enjoyed singing Gregorian chants as a kid.

[chantchickscc]

As a Catholic who is majoring in Sacred Music, I can assure that there is at least hope. It may be slow in coming. BUT it IS coming. :)

[BelCanto85]

Why isn't this song on the Mission Road CD?

[jeanwithkids]

This is beautiful music. Why in the world has the Church replaced this tradition with ugly modernity?

[bigfrank966]

It would be amazing if Chanticleer would sing Monteverdi's "Selva Morale e Spirituale" or the "Vespro della Beata Vergine". Some of the masterpieces about the sacred music.