Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Performer: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Coro
Catalogue: COR16155
Release: 2017
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Angelus Domini descendit
45 Hymns
02. No. 16, Ave maris stella
03. In diebus illis
04. Beatae Mariae Magdalenae
05. Beata Barbara
Song of Songs
06. No. 19, Adjuro vos, filiæ Hierusalem
07. No. 20, Caput ejus aurum optimum
08. No. 21, Dilectus meus descendit in hortum meum
09. Susanna ab improbis
10. Veni sponsa Christi
Missa Ave regina cœlorum
11. I. Kyrie
12. II. Gloria
13. III. Credo
14. IV. Sanctus
15. V. Benedictus
16. VI. Agnus Dei I & II
The Sixteen continues its exploration of Palestrina’s great art with the eagerly anticipated seventh album in the series which includes the Missa Ave Regina caelorum
Palestrina is perhaps the most famous of all Renaissance composers, certainly by name. By his death his reputation outshone all others. His musical legacy is prodigious even by the standards of the time – he wrote over 100 Masses – and he was the first Renaissance composer to have a complete edition of almost his whole output published in modern notation. Today some pieces are quite familiar, others less so, and much of his superb music is almost unknown. The seventh recording in The Sixteen’s celebrated series focuses on some of the pivotal women in Christian history – Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, St Barbara and Susannah.