Album Description

I Fagiolini’s re-discovery and recording of Striggio’s longlost Mass in 40/60 Parts was ground-breaking when it was released in 2011. The premiere recording won awards around the world including the Gramophone Early Music Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France and remains a trailblazing account of this Renaissance epic. It is complemented on this album by Tallis’s Spem in alium which it is said to have inspired. The Gramophone citation particularly mentioned the new lustre brought to the piece by instrumental involvement and the clarity brought to the detail by the use of viols, cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and more. Eight further works by Striggio are also included, each of them premiere recordings in 2011.

Artists

I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth

Track Listing

ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO (c.1536/7–92)
Ecce beatam lucem

STRIGGIO
Missa Ecco sì beato giorno

VINCENZO GALILEI (c. late 1520s–91)
Contrapunto Secondo

STRIGGIO
Fuggi, spene mia
O giovenil ardire
Altr’io che queste spighe
D’ogni gratia et d’amor
O de la bella Etruria invitto Duce
Caro dolce ben mio
Miser’oimè

Sarum plainchant

THOMAS TALLIS (c.1505–85)
Spem in alium
 

Total time: 68.55

Newly re-mastered for release on CORO