The Gems of Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525?-94)

amuletts — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:03:11 +0000

“This is one of Pro Cantione Antiqua’s most carefully researched and best-sounding performances … It is also something of a market leader among Palestrina recordings, since it almost certainly comes closer than any other to re-creating the sound of this music as the composer himself knew it.” (Gramophone) … “Pride of place to my mind goes to Pro Cantione Antiqua’s evocative performance of Missa Papae Marcelli … complemented by the famous Stabat mater ” (Penguin Guide 3*)

Missa Papae Marcelli [36:58]

1. Kyrie 5:02

2. Gloria 6:21

3. Credo 9:46

4. Sanctus 3:59

5. Benedictus 3:24

6. Agnus Dei I & II 8:23

7. Stabat Mater 11:41

8. Super Flumina Babylonis (Motet) 3:57

9. Sicut Servus (Motet) 5:45

Missa Brevis [19:40]

10. Kyrie 2:36

11. Gloria 2:54

12. Credo 5:17

13. Sanctus 1:41

14. Benedictus 2:06

15. Agnus Dei 5:04

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amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:36:57 +0000

“[An] enjoyable [anthology] of arias sacred and secular… performances that would be hard to better in expressivity, quality of tone and diction, intonation, control of vibrato, and absence of technical strain.… =The recording is as clear as a frosty morning, the acoustic spacious, and the balance exemplary.… A disc I shall often return to… Warmly recommended.”
— Gramophone©

Essential Baroque arias with periodinstrument accompaniment – a Gramophone rave at an unbeatable price

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The Gems of Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c1525?-94)

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