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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Vol.2 | Coro COR16105

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Vol.2

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Label: Coro

Cat No: COR16105

Barcode: 0828021610523

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st October 2012

Contents

Artists

The Sixteen

Conductor

Harry Christophers

Works

Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da

Canticum Canticorum (The Song of Songs)
» no.1 Osculetur me osculo oris sui
» no.2 Trahe me post te
» no.3 Nigra sum sed formosa
Christe Redemptor omnium (hymn)
Hodie Christus natus est
Magnificat quinti toni
Missa Hodie Christus natus est
O Magnum Mysterium
Reges Tharsis
Tui sunt coeli

Artists

The Sixteen

Conductor

Harry Christophers

About

Following the success of the first volume in their Palestrina series which won the International Classical Music Award for Early Music, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen release the second recording in the series, which has a Christmas theme.

Palestrina was born in 1525, not far from Rome, in the town whose name he bore and from which we take the cover images for this series of discs. Possibly the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, Palestrina was a towering figure in Renaissance polyphony. Choral singers world-wide will know his Missa Papae Marcelli as, without doubt, it is the most renowned of Palestrina’s works and possibly the most famous mass of all time.

Each volume in this series is based around a single mass and theme relevant to that mass, in this case the Nativity and the festive Motet and Mass Hodie Christus Natus Est. The mass features alongside some of his settings of the Song of Songs as well as the Magnificat Quinti toni and Motet O magnum mysterium.

The approach of Harry Christophers is distinctive and revelatory, and he has surrounded the mass with a well-chosen array of motets...the imaginative variety of these performances bodes well for the future volumes in this series.” - BBC Music Magazine (on Palestrina Vol.1)

The abstract beauty of the singers’ approach to the Missa Asumpta Est Maria and the breathless beauty of the Song of Songs shows The Sixteen’s adaptability and resourcefulness.” - Classic FM Magazine (on Palestrina Vol.1)

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