Cantiones sacrae (Gesualdo)

The Sacrae Cantiones of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa are two collections of motets published in 1603. The first volume consists of 19 motets for 5 voices, the second volume of 20 motets for 6 or 7 voices. The bassus and sextus (sixth part) of the second volume are lost, but were reconstructed by musicologist James Wood from 2008 to 2011 and recorded by Wood's Vocalconsort Berlin in August 2011.

Motet list
Sacrarum cantionum quinque vocibus Liber primus, Napoli, Costantino Vitale, 1603
 * 1) O vos omnes
 * 2) Domine, ne despicias deprecationem meam
 * 3) Sancti Spiritus, Domine
 * 4) Exaudi, Deus, deprecationem meam
 * 5) Venit lumen tuum
 * 6) Illumina faciem tuam
 * 7) Maria, Mater gratiae
 * 8) Precibus et meritis
 * 9) Ave, dulcissima Maria
 * 10) Dignare me laudare te
 * 11) Ave Regina cœlorum
 * 12) Hei mihi Domine
 * 13) Tribulationem et dolorem
 * 14) Peccantem me quotidie
 * 15) Reminiscere miserationum tuarum
 * 16) Tribularer si nescirem
 * 17) Laboravi in gemitu meo
 * 18) Deus, refugium et virtus
 * 19) O Crux benedicta

Sacrarum cantionum liber primus, 1603 - in fact Liber secundus
 * 1) Ad te levavi
 * 2) Adoramus te Christe
 * 3) Ardens est cor meum
 * 4) Assumpta est Maria
 * 5) Ave sanctissima Maria
 * 6) Da pacem Domine
 * 7) Discedite a me omnes
 * 8) Franciscus humilis et pauper
 * 9) Gaudeamus omnes
 * 10) Illumina nos
 * 11) Ne derelinquas me
 * 12) O anima sanctissima
 * 13) O beata Mater
 * 14) O oriens splendor
 * 15) O sacrum convivium
 * 16) Sana me Domine
 * 17) Veni Creator Spiritus
 * 18) Veni sponsa Christi
 * 19) Verba mea
 * 20) Virgo benedicta

Editions

 * Eight songs of the Sacrae Cantiones arranged/completed by Theo Verbey in 2005.

Recordings

 * Book 1 Odhecaton, Ensemble Mare Nostrum dir. Paolo Da Col 2013
 * Book 2 Vocalconsort Berlin, dir. James Wood 2011