Para dar luz inmortal (from Mission Road-Our Journey Back)

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

[sfchanticleer]

@amatorynumber I simple 'you got yourself a typo there' would have sufficed. Now you've hurt our feelings.

[gay4play]

Each verse has its own timbre and texture created by using different voice parts, monophony, polyphony, and accompaniment. There's nothing repetitive about it.

[musicotodopodero]

Una obra simple, interpretada de manera inteligente, dinámica y musical. Excelente!!!

[Zhaboka]

Oh my god. The whole thing is just shimmering with love and texture. So sad and so perfect. Also, Eric Alatorre is a total boss.

[Mjwatman1]

This is absolutely gorgeous! I could listen to this over and over.

[Mayerling52]

I love this song/hymn...it evokes the past

[Mayerling52]

is this from Tudor times?

[stevenlewels]

@amatorynumber I do in fact hear a low B at 3:18

[stevenlewels]

Reeeeally would like to see this sheet music...

[sue0247]

Shelovessherry, I agree! That's why I love Chanticleer so much. We can't all sing as beautifully as they do, but if we cooperate as thoughtfully and do things with as giving a spirit as they do, then there's hope for all of us to do beautiful things.