PalestrinaL Missa Dum Complerentur
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
PalestrinaL Missa Dum Complerentur
Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker
[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 4 February 2014
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Martin Baker's first disc with the choir following his appointment at the Cathedral last year (MacMillan's Mass, CDA67219) was a resounding success. He returns to more familiar territory with this disc of Palestrina sacred music, focusing on music for Whitsuntide. (Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament).
This is glorious music and for it Martin Baker has drawn the best from his glorious choir.
"Westminster Cathedral Choir and their new music director Martin Baker continue the Hyperion/Westminster tradition with this thrilling recording of Palestrina's Pentecost Mass, published posthumously in Venice in 1599. This example of his Mass composition - he wrote at least 104 settings - shows a wonderful confidence and surefootedness, not least in his employment of the motet at the core of the five movements of the larger work."
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (April 2003)
"This is a thoughtful, carefully analysed performance-Baker and the Westminster choir communicate a clear sense of the structural logic … the singers are excellent … virtually flawless … shut your eyes and you can almost smell the incense. Very warmly recommended" BBC Music
Tracks:
Dum complerentur
Missa Dum complerentur
Alleluia: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Veni Creator Spiritus
Magnificat sexti toni
Spiritus Sanctus replevit totam domum
