Beata viscera Hervé Niquet, Conductor (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Anonymous, Composer Laetatus sum Orazio Benevoli, Composer (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Hervé Niquet, Conductor ...

I have never understood why some groups still place all of the singers in front of the audience for performances of Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium and the 40-part works of Striggio. It is now widely ...

Alessandro Striggio's Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno," a contrapuntal tour de force in 40 voices, was written in the mid-1560s and disappeared into the French national archives a century and a half later ...

Musical fashions may wax and wane, but showmanship never goes out of style. The urge to thrill and impress observers was as strong in the 16th century as it is today, as evidenced by Alessandro ...

Alessandro Striggio’s Missa Ecco sì beato giorno starts with a lone soprano voice, giving no clue to the spacious sonorities he is going to explore later on. This is his landmark mid-1500s Mass for 40 ...

I Fagiolini here presents the premiere recording of Striggio's recently discovered Mass composed for five choirs of eight parts apiece, which is presumed to be the inspiration for Thomas Tallis's ...

While Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in Alium is rightly regarded as one of the peaks of late renaissance polyphony, the works that provided its inspiration remain little known. Alessandro ...

The rediscovery a few years ago of Striggio's astonishing mass in 40 parts, by the scholar Davitt Moroney, was a sensational event: there have already been two separate editions, and now that the mass ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's not the first thing you'd expect to see in the pop charts alongside Bon Jovi and Duffy: a choral work in 40 parts by a composer ...

The first thing anybody notices about Fleet Foxes is the band’s sound: something like John Denver in a fallout shelter, or Crosby, Stills and Nash singing in a gigantic underground cavern. You can ...

Decca is proud to present I Fagiolini in the world-premiere recording of Alessandro Striggio's 40-part mass Ecco si beato giorno, available March 29th. The work, long rumored to exist but only ...