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Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)

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Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)

Stephen Rice, The Brabant Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Ad coenam Agni (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 286 Mb | Total time: 70:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | CDA67978 | Recorded: 2012

The Brabant Ensemble, better known for uncovering works by forgotten composers such as Dominique de Phinot, turns to a giant of the Renaissance—perhaps the most celebrated name of the period. Yet within Palestrina’s huge output there are many hidden gems, lacking both recordings and modern performing editions, and it is from among these that the ensemble’s director Stephen Rice has chosen the repertoire for this album. A Mass—Missa Ad coenam Agni, from Palestrina’s first book of Mass-settings—is included, plus antiphons, motets and five Eastertide Offertories. Each work is, as Stephen Rice states in his typically informative booklet notes, ‘a finely crafted addition to the liturgy’.

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

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Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 76:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1020 | Recorded: 2015

In 2014, Bruce began a project together with Czech soprano Hana Blažíková to explore the affinity of the cornetto and the human voice. The project was called Breathtaking: A Cornetto and a Voice Entwined. With the program that evolved from that project, Bruce and Hana recorded a CD for the Passacaille label and toured the world performing the program more than forty times in North America, Europe and Australia. In order to make the touring financially viable, they have paired with backup ensembles in Europe, the USA and Australia.

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

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Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 102 min | 6,54 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese | Recorded: 1992

This package, released on Archiv Laserdisc and VHS in December 1993, was recorded a year earlier at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in cooperation with a consortium of European television broadcasters. It consists of two distinct but complementary programs, the first under McCreesh followed by another under Pinnock. As the notes point out, the basilica is the perfect site for such a program, since it has claimed to possess the very crib in which the infant lay on the first Christmas. For centuries the papal celebration of the Midnight Mass of Christmas was held “ad praesepe,” at the altar where the crib was venerated. Typically for such concert videos, we see appropriate scenes in the basilica alternating with views of the singers and players.

Andrew Nethsingha, Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge - Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s (2010)

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Andrew Nethsingha, Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge - Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s (2010)

Andrew Nethsingha, Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge - Hear My Words: Choral Classics from St John’s (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 274 Mb | Total time: 77:25 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5085 | Recorded: 2010

As exclusive Chandos artists, the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge here presents its second release. The first CD, of choral music by Howells (CHAN10587), was released to rave reviews in March this year. Choir and Organ wrote: ‘There is musicianship here of a rare and moving kind.’ This new release of popular choral classics should meet with a similar reception while at the same time appealing to a wider audience.

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Lamenta: Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White, Palestrina (1998)

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Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Lamenta: Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White, Palestrina (1998)

Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars - Lamenta: Ferrabosco, Tallis, Brumel, White, Palestrina (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 285 Mb | Total time: 72:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gimel | # CDGIM 996 | Recorded: 1992, 1995, 1998

Turn down the lights and get out your joss-sticks for this one: a selection of sixteenth-century Tenebrae music for Holy Week, among the most evocative parts of the liturgy. Since they had already made successful recordings of the Brumel, Tallis and White, it was a good idea for The Tallis Scholars to add new recordings of Tenebrae settings by Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder and Palestrina. As Peter Phillips points out in his brief note, the only textual feature they have in common is their all ending with the passage “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere ad Dominum Deum tuum”. Otherwise the texts that the various composers selected from the Lamentations of Jeremiah are quite different; but all show an intensity and a devotional power that work cumulatively to produce a remarkably satisfying disc. And it is endlessly fascinating to hear the different approaches to these anguished texts.

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - The Ear of the Huguenots (2017)

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Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - The Ear of the Huguenots (2017)

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - The Ear of the Huguenots (2017)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 288 Mb | Total time: 65:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88985411762 | Recorded: 2016

The Huelgas Ensemble under Paul Van Nevel are numbered among the world’s best vocal ensembles for over 40 years. Their recordings of, in many cases, completely unknown works has earned the ensemble the highest international acclaim. The press wrote of their last recording: “The Huelgas Ensemble once again demonstrates its artistic skill and expressive power” (SWR 2). For their new album, Paul Van Nevel has selected outstanding works by Huguenot composers of the 16th century, a period when Protestants were ruthlessly persecuted in pre-revolutionary France. The tragic height of this persecution was the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre on the night of 23–24 August 1572, when the lives of thousands of Huguenots were taken.

Konrad Junghänel, Gradus ad Parnassum - Biber: Missa Alleluja à 36; Schmelzer: Vesperae Sollennes (1995)

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Konrad Junghänel, Gradus ad Parnassum - Biber: Missa Alleluja à 36; Schmelzer: Vesperae Sollennes (1995)

Konrad Junghänel, Gradus ad Parnassum - Biber: Missa Alleluja à 36; Schmelzer: Vesperae Sollennes (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 310 Mb | Total time: 73:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 05472 77326 2 | Recorded: 1994

A large collection of religious works by two Austrian composers. Bieber's work for 36 voices is a powerful and moving piece, especially for cornets, trumpets, sackbuts and timpani bursts. Here, Junghaner is in charge of the Viennese early music group and Concerto Palatino, who has the best technique and expressiveness in the early music brass system, also contributes to this wonderful performance. It was performed in the mass format at the time, and is recorded with a sonata in front and behind. [Sony Music]

The Hilliard Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum, Stanze sopra la Vergine (1994)

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The Hilliard Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum, Stanze sopra la Vergine (1994)

The Hilliard Ensemble - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum, Stanze sopra la Vergine (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 390 Mb | Total time: 45:21+60:35 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Veritas | # 5 61168 2 | Recorded: 1986

Palestrina's settings from the Song of Songs are among his most rich and passionate work, with the erotic imagery of Solomon's words used as allegories for Christ and the Church, and they form a powerful, intense and very beautiful set of motets.

Simon Ravens, Musica Contexta - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Music for Good Friday (2000)

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Simon Ravens, Musica Contexta - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Music for Good Friday (2000)

Simon Ravens, Musica Contexta - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Music for Good Friday (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 282 Mb | Total time: 71:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHAN 0652 | Recorded: 1999

Three selected readings from the Lamentations of Jeremiah are sung during the First Nocturn at Tenebrae on each of the last three days of Holy Week. In this recording we hear the Lamentations for Good Friday from the third of Palestrina's four settings, wonderful, sensitive compositions for four, five and six voices. Musica Contexta, under Simon Ravens, responds well to the music and its dark harmonies and unexpected modulations. In particular, the third Lamentation, with its repeated Hebrew letters ('Aleph, Aleph, Aleph'), was sung with power and understanding. I noted with pleasure that the singers had followed Guidetti's 1587 notated edition of the florid responsories that follow each of the Lamentations.

Jeremy Summerly, Schola Cantorum of Oxford - Palestrina, Lassus: Masses (1993)

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Jeremy Summerly, Schola Cantorum of Oxford - Palestrina, Lassus: Masses (1993)

Jeremy Summerly, Schola Cantorum of Oxford - Palestrina: Missa Hodie Christus natus est; Lassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 263 Mb | Total time: 65:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.550836 | Recorded: 1993

Where in their account of Palestrina’s Missa Aeterna Christi munera Summerly’s group are restrained in their devotional manner, this celebrated Mass for Christmas has them joyful and exuberant. The choir, over 30 strong, brings out both the beauty and the drama of the writing, and equally so in the brief motet setting the Christmas works. The magnificent Stabat Mater is wisely given to a smaller group of 16 singers, two to a part, with added clarity in the complex polyphony. Well coupled with one of Lassus’s best-loved Masses, Palestrina’s close contemporary from Flanders, this CD represents the work of two supreme polyphonic masters who died in the same year.

Sergio Vartolo - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa de Beata Virgine I (2000)

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Sergio Vartolo - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa de Beata Virgine I (2000)

Sergio Vartolo - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa de beata virgine I (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 216 Mb | Total time: 55:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.553313 | Recorded: 1995

Sergio Vartolo, the director of the Cappella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna, has sought to place the Mass within a liturgical sequence recalling early performance tradition. Thus it opens with the plainchant introit Gaudeamus omnes in Domino (intended for a major feast of the Virgin Mary) and after the Gloria comes a Gradual and an organ paraphrase of the hymn Ave maris stella (by Girolamo Cavazzoni), very well played by Vartolo himself. Then comes the plainchant Alleluia and, following the Credo, the Gregorian Offertory, Beata ex Virgo Maria, which leads on to the Sanctus; the communion verse precedes Palestrina’s very beautiful double Agnus Dei. The performance has striking character and powerful devotional feeling and is very well recorded in the Church of St Zeno, Cavalo, Verona.

Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa 'Assumpta est Maria', Motetti (1999)

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Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa 'Assumpta est Maria', Motetti (1999)

Philippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa 'Assumpta est Maria', Motetti (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 153 Mb | Total time: 43:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC 008029 | Recorded: 1980

Palestrina's musical output was large, and included not only masses, motets, hymns, and lamentations, but also spiritual and secular madrigals. Indeed the compositional techniques of the madrigal inform mach of Palestrina' work. The controlled emotion of his religious music, the sense of expressive restraint in his word-setting, are owed to his knowledge and experience of the madrigal.

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - La Quinta essentia: Palestrina, Lassus, Ashewell (2007)

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Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - La Quinta essentia: Palestrina, Lassus, Ashewell (2007)

Paul Van Nevel, Huelgas Ensemble - La Quinta essentia: Palestrina, Lassus, Ashewell (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 332 Mb | Total time: 77:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundu | # HMC 901922 | Recorded: 2005

The Huelgas-Ensemble presents another superbly sung, thoughtfully programmed recording that offers for our consideration what conductor Paul Van Nevel describes as “the three major styles of the Renaissance”, represented by Roman, Franco-Flemish, and English Late Gothic masses. It’s easy to understand the choice of Palestrina (Roman) and Lassus (Franco-Flemish)–but with Thomas Ashewell we truly have a horse of a different color, stylistically for sure, but also one with the most meager catalog (only two extant complete works, according to Van Nevel). The term “late Gothic” as applied to musical style also is not a common one, but Van Nevel obviously has carefully–and probably cleverly–chosen to demonstrate its aspects with Ashewell rather than with a more familiar yet more commonly heard contemporary composer such as Cornysh, Fayrfax, or Carver.

Jérôme Lejeune - L'Europe Musicale de la Renaissance / Music in Europe at the Time of the Renaissance [8CDs] (2013)

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Jérôme Lejeune - L'Europe Musicale de la Renaissance / Music in Europe at the Time of the Renaissance [8CDs] (2013)

Jérôme Lejeune - L'Europe Musicale de la Renaissance / Music in Europe at the Time of the Renaissance [8CDs] (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 2.88 Gb | Total time: 10h35' | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercar | # RIC 106

Jérôme Lejeune continues his History of Music series with this boxed set devoted to the Renaissance. The next volume in the series after Flemish Polyphony (RIC 102), this set explores the music of the 16th century from Josquin Desprez to Roland de Lassus. After all of the various turnings that music took during the Middle Ages, the music of the Renaissance seems to be a first step towards a common European musical style. Josquin Desprez’s example was followed by every composer in every part of Europe and in every musical genre, including the Mass setting, the motet and all of the various new types of solo song. Instrumental music was also to develop considerably from the beginning of the 16th century onwards.

William Dongois, Le Concert Brisé - Early Baroque Music for the Cornett (2018)

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William Dongois, Le Concert Brisé - Early Baroque Music for the Cornett (2018)

William Dongois, Le Concert Brisé - Early Baroque Music for the Cornett (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 912 Mb | Total time: 03:26:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Phaia Productions | # PPR 18003 | Recorded: 2003, 2005

The cornett was considered the instrument of kings and was one of the defining instruments until the 18th century, when it fell victim to the orchestral innovations of the classical period and went out of fashion. To this day, however, its sound continues to fascinate. To help listeners experience the magic of his instrument, William Dongois has teamed up with Le Concert Brisé to put together three sparkling programmes tracing the history of the zinc in the Baroque era, available together for the first time.