, St Martin of Tours
Historia Sancti Martini: O beatum virum, in cuius transitu (responsory)
Gregorian chant
Recording
Diabolus in Musica, Antoine Guerber
- Album
- Historia Sancti Martini
- Year
- 2011
- Length
- Period
- Gregorian chant
- Listen
Painting
Unknown
Saint Martin, 1340–50
The piece
This chant belongs to the proper office for the feast of St Martin on November 11, as sung at his basilica in Tours. Its text describes the saints singing and the angels rejoicing as Martin dies, words the Roman Breviary keeps as the Magnificat antiphon at Second Vespers.
The recording
Antoine Guerber and the men's voices of Diabolus in Musica reconstructed the Matins office for the winter feast of St Martin from a Tours ritual written between 1226 and 1237. Aeon released the recording in 2011.