Missa Media Vita In Morte Sumus

Album by Nicolas Gombert & The Hilliard Ensemble

Missa Media Vita in Morte Sumus is a mid-16th-century mass by the Franco-Flemish composer Nicolas Gombert, composed around 1540. The work exemplifies Gombert's dense, imitative polyphony and modal harmonic language characteristic of the Franco-Flemish tradition, and it represents a mature example of contrapuntal mass writing within mid-16th-century sacred music history.
First released: 2006

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Media vita in morte sumus a 6 voci
    6:09
  2. 2.
    Kyrie (from Missa Media Vita) a 5 voci
    4:33
  3. 3.
    Gloria (from Missa Media Vita) a 5 voci
    7:34
  4. 4.
    Salve Regina a 4 voci
    8:44
  5. 5.
    Anima mea liquefacta est a 5 voci
    6:56
  6. 6.
    Credo (from Missa Media Vita) a 5 voci
    10:15
  7. 7.
    O Crux, splendidior a 6 voci
    6:32
  8. 8.
    Sanctus (from Missa Media Vita) a 5 voci
    8:37
  9. 9.
    Quam pulchra es a 4 voci
    4:52
  10. 10.
    Agnus Dei (from Missa Media Vita) a 5 voci
    5:23
  11. 11.
    Musae lovis a 6 voci
    6:19