Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Performer: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Coro
Catalogue: COR16133
Release: 2015
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Motettorum – Liber Quintus
01. No. 6 Parce mihi, Domine
02. No. 16 Peccantem me quotidie
Offertoria
03. No. 49 Si ambulavero in medio tribulationis
04. Tribulationes civitatum audivimus
05. Super flumina Babylonis
Song of Songs
06. No. 16 Surge, amica mea, speciosa mea
07. No. 17. Dilectus meus mihi
08. No. 18 Surgam et circuibo civitatem
09. De profundis clamavi
Missa L’Homme Armé
10. I. Kyrie
11. II. Gloria
12. III. Credo
13. IV. Sanctus
14. V. Benedictus
15. VI. Agnus Dei I & II
16. Tribularer si nescirem
The Sixteen continues its acclaimed series of discs exploring the work of Italian Renaissance master, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. An enormous body of sacred works, including over 100 Masses, rightly earned Palestrina the title of ‘the prince and father of music’ and ‘the saviour of church music’. His legacy has impacted sacred music worldwide for over 400 years and composers throughout the centuries have studied and learned from his gift of writing exquisite polyphony.
Central to this sixth disc is Palestrina’s unjustly neglected 5-voice L’Homme armé Mass. Written before 1570, it is no mere technical showpiece, but contains music of the highest quality. It is accompanied on this disc by a group of penitential and devotional motets and Offertories on well known texts such as Parce mihi Domine, Si ambulavero in medio tribulationis, Tribulationes civitatem, De profundis, and Super flumina Babylonis, eliciting from Palestrina his best and most moving music. Three further Song of Songs motets in the Sixteen’s ongoing complete survey complete the CD.