Complete Vespers of Our Lady

Juan Garcia de Salazar, some of whose works were still performed in Spanish churches well into the nineteenth century was one of Spain's most important Baroque composers of religious music. Without attempting an exact liturgical reconstruction, this recording presents a coherent musical program for a contemporary Vespers service for Our Lady, based on an extant works by Salazar preserved in the Cathedral of Zamora. The instrumental movements are transcriptions of motets by Salazar and the full service is completed with organ verses by the de Olague and a Batalla by Ximenez, both of whom worked in more or less the same region as Salazar and by plainchant taken from a choirbook dated 1692.