Discography

The complete Liber Primus

Two releases across three discs — a double album and a single disc, more than three hours of music — recorded between 2022 and 2025 and covering all twenty-three motets of the 1551 print.

Cover: Liber Primus Epigramatum, Motets in 5 parts

2026 · note 1 music · NO 26008 · double album, 2 CD · 2h12

Liber Primus Epigramatum
Motets in 5 parts

Arte Minima · Pedro Sousa Silva, recorders & direction

The sixteen five-voice motets that lie at the heart of the collection — a compendium of mid-sixteenth-century European polyphony, from the Iberian manner of Clamabat autem to the Gombert-like continuity of Emendemus in melius and the Latin madrigal Quid montes.

CD 1 — 71:30

  • Hodie Simon Petrus6:15
  • Crux et virga8:47
  • Videns Crucem9:21
  • Sancta Mater7:32
  • Clamabat autem6:48
  • Vidi civitatem10:24
  • Ave spes nostra5:10
  • Regina caeli5:13
  • Benedictum11:55

CD 2 — 59:16

  • Hic est Michael8:53
  • Lucia virgo9:41
  • Elisabeth6:56
  • Isti sunt6:17
  • Emendemus in melius9:40
  • Aspice domine8:38
  • Quid montes9:05

Texts and translations

Cover: Liber Primus Epigramatum, Motets in 6 and 8 parts

2025 · Pan Classics · PC 10466 · 1 CD · 55:52

Liber Primus Epigramatum
Motets in 6 and 8 parts

Arte Minima · Pedro Sousa Silva, recorders & direction

The seven large-scale motets that close the print, among them the eight-voice Inviolata and Preter rerum seriem — responses to Josquin's famous settings in five and six parts, using the same material to build new textures and to extend the musical narrative.

  • Inviolata, integra et casta es Maria — 8 vv.10:55
  • O beata Maria — 6 vv.8:47
  • Sancta Maria — 6 vv.5:28
  • Salve Regina misericordiae — 6 vv.5:39
  • Sum servus domini — 6 vv.8:30
  • Aspice domine — 6 vv.7:18
  • Preter rerum seriem — 8 vv.9:14

Texts and translations