Album Description
Palestrina had a vast impact on the development of music. Hugely famous in his day, his reputation and influence grew even more following his death and his work can be seen as a summation of Renaissance polyphony. His musical legacy is prodigious even by the standards of the time—he wrote over 100 masses—and he was the first Renaissance composer to have a complete edition of almost his whole output published in modern notation.
The eighth recording in The Sixteen’s celebrated series focuses on the Last Supper and the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross at the first Easter and includes the Missa Fratres ego enim accepi. Three settings from the Song of Songs also feature.
Artists
The SixteenHarry Christophers
Track Listing
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
1. Ego sum panis vivus
2. Fratres ego enim accepi
3. Accepit Jesus calicem
Missa Fratres ego enim accepi
4. Kyrie
5. Gloria
6. Credo
7. Sanctus
8. Benedictus
9. Agnus Dei
10. Caro mea vere est cibus
11. Pater noster
12. Sacerdotes Domini
Song of Songs: Nos. 25-27
13. Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
14. Duo ubera tua
15. Quam pulchra es
16. Victimae paschali laudes
17. Pange lingua
Total Running Time: 73.21