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An exuberant period of rebirth, emerging from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance brought an artistic flowering exemplified in the glories of Italy: painting, sculpture, architecture, literature and music. The splendid choral works of Palestrina and Allegri, composing in Rome and Gabrieli and Monteverdi, active in Venice, are noble and intricate, serene and exhilarating. While Allegri’s soaring Miserere was composed for the Sistine Chapel, Monteverdi’s epically conceived Vespers evoke the grandeur of the domed basilica of St Mark’s. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Renaissance of Italian MusicThe National Gallery Collection
Allegri: | Miserere mei, Deus Gerald Finley (baritone), Timothy Beasley-Murray (treble solo) Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury | Gabrieli, A: | Kyrie a 12 David Hurley (falsetto), Charles Pott (tenor) Gloria a 16 Robert Harre-Jones (falsetto), Charles Pott (tenor) Sanctus & Benedictus a 12 Charles Pott (tenor) | Gabrieli, G: | Omnes gentes plaudite manibus a 16 Robert Harre-Jones (falsetto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (baritone) Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh Sonata con voce: Dulcis Jesu a 20 Charles Daniels, Nicolas Robertson (tenor) Tavener Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8, C 56 Tavener Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott | Monteverdi: | Vespro della beata Vergine (1610): excerpts Emma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Nigel Rogers, Andrew King, Joseph Cornwell (tenors) Tavener Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott Selva morale e spirituale (excerpts) Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera (sopranos), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor [alto part]), Nigel Rogers (tenor), David Thomas (bass) Tavener Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott | Palestrina: | Missa Papae Marcelli Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks Beata es, virgo Maria Hodie gloriosa semper virgo Maria Magnificat Septimi Toni Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown |
“[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, 25th November 2011 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Palestrina - Choral Works
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