Est 1923

Palestrina Masses

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Giovanni Palestrina

Label: Classics

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 74

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 30366 00782

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Missa L'homme armé Giovanni Palestrina, Composer
Giovanni Palestrina, Composer
Mark Brown, Conductor
Pro Cantione Antiqua
Missa Assumpta est Maria Giovanni Palestrina, Composer
Giovanni Palestrina, Composer
Mark Brown, Conductor
Pro Cantione Antiqua
These accounts – featuring the generally darker sound of an all-male ‘cast’ – are neither triumphalist nor even dramatic, but serene. Yet PCA’s interpretation of Assumpta est Maria is every bit as vibrant as those of The Tallis Scholars (Gimell, 9/90) or Clare College, Cambridge (EMI, 8/97), thanks in part to the two countertenors on the higest parts. In L’homme arme the balance is relly rather bottom-heavy anf there are uncharacteristic intonational problems. Elsewhere, though, the plainchant items are well chosen and movingly delivered.'

Palestrina Masses

Missa L'homme armé

Missa Assumpta est Maria

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