[ Warner Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 10 November 2016
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"[The Allegri] is one of the highlights, the 1970 recording by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge achieving an almost weightless sublimity, particularly in the Sanctus. The Taverner Consort of the 1980s offers similarly impressive interpretations of Giovanni Gabrieli's polychoral pieces" (The Independent)
Illustrated in this collection is the profound impact of the Renaissance on Italian culture between the 15th and 17th centuries, stimulated by new intellectual endeavours and resulting in an interwoven and harmonious relationship between music and visual art. Presented here are works from composers central to them musical developments of this era, from Palestrina to Monteverdi, complemented by an exploration of some of the National Gallery's most significant paintings from the Italian Renaissance.
Allegri:
Miserere mei, Deus
Gabrieli, A:
Kyrie a 12
Gloria a 16
Sanctus & Benedictus a 12
Gabrieli, G:
Omnes gentes plaudite manibus a 16
Sonata con voce: Dulcis Jesu a 20
O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8, C 56
Monteverdi:
Vespro della beata Vergine (1610): excerpts
with Emma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner, Nigel Rogers, Andrew King, and Joseph Cornwell
Selva morale e spirituale (excerpts)
with Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera, Rogers Covey-Crump, and Nigel Rogers
Palestrina:
Missa Papae Marcelli
Beata es, virgo Maria
Hodie gloriosa semper virgo Maria
Magnificat Septimi Toni