Album Description

This disc offers a fascinating collection of works written for the Papal Chapel. Researched and sung by one of the world's leading choirs, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers, this recording includes many world premiere recordings of these rarely heard sacred works.

Felice Anerio displays a fluid mastery of the Roman style of composition, and some of his surviving settings are shown to advantage here, in particular his glorious twelve-part setting of Stabat Mater, more ambitious and possibly more beautiful than those by Palestrina and Lassus. Gregorio Allegri is famous for his Miserere (available on CORO as COR16014); this recording contains representative examples of his polyphonic style. Together with settings by the towering figure of Palestrina, all receive warm and vital performances.

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Track Listing

Felice Anerio (1560-1614)
1. Ave Regina caelorum a8 

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
2. Ascendit Deus a5 

Palestrina
3. Ave Maria a5
4. Angelus Domini descendit de caelo a5 

Anerio
5. Regina caeli laetare a8
6. Stabat Mater a12 

Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
7. Christus resurgens ex mortuis

Luca Marenzio (1553?-1599)
8. Che fa oggi il mio sole 

Allegri
Missa 'Che fa oggi il mio sole'
9. Kyrie 
10. Gloria 
11. Credo
12. Sanctus
13. Benedictus 
14. Agnus Dei 

Anerio
15. Magnificat secundi toni a8

Palestrina
16. Assumpta est Maria a6

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1hr 8mins