Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

Although Rossetti was well regarded during his own time, he was neglected in subsequent periods. These 18 motets (originally published in 1573), offered here for the first time in modern edition, reveal Rossetti as a composer of particular sensitivity and imagination. The settings, with texts drawn chiefly from the Psalms, are mostly for five voices.

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Verba mea auribus percipe, Domine; Quoniam ad te orabo, Domine; Veni Sancte Spiritus; Domine, quando veneris iudicare terram; Domine, probasti me et cognovisti me; Viri Galilaei, quid admiramini aspicientes in caelum?; Domine Jesu Christe, Fili Dei vivi; Aspice Domine, quia facta est desolata civitas; Muro tuo inexpugnabili; Ad te, Domine, levavi animam mean

Levavi oculos meos in montes; Homo natus de muliere, brevi vivens tempore; Tribularer, si nescirem misericordias tuas; Tulerunt Dominum meum, et nescio ubi posuerunt eum; Laudate Dominum, omnes gentes, laudate eum, omnes populi; Cantate Domino canticum novum; O gloriosa Domina, excelsa super sidera; Beati pauperes spiritu