Dufay and Binchois Photo: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
'Nuper rosarum flores' is a contrapuntal motet composed by Guillaume Dufay for the 25 March 1436 consecration of the Florence Cathedral, and to mark the completion of the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.
The title of the piece stems from the name of the cathedral itself: Santa Maria del Fiore, or St. Mary of the Flower. The opening lines of Dufay's text refers to Pope Eugene IV's gift to the cathedral, and to the city of Florence, of a golden rose to decorate the high altar—a gift made the week before the dedication.
Recorded in Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul by RNZ Concert
Producer/sound engineer: Darryl Stack
