The Greatest Choral Music of Palestrina: Prince of Music
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Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaConductor: Dennis Keene
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-25
Music Label: Delos Records
Soundtracks:
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Kyrie eleison
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Gloria
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Credo
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Sanctus
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Benedictus
- Missa Papae Marcelli (6-Part): Agnus Dei
- Work(s): Secundum multitudinem, for 6 voices
- Tu es petrus, motet (unspecified of 2)
- Dum complerentur, motet for 6 voices (from Motets Book I)
- O Domine Jesu, motet for 6 voices (from Motets Book I)
- Super flumina Babylonis, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)
- Canite tuba, motet for 5 voices (from Motets Book II for 5, 6, & 8 voices): Part 1
- Canite tuba, motet for 5 voices (from Motets Book II for 5, 6, & 8 voices): Part 2: Rorate coeli
- Peccantem me quotidie, motet for 5 voices (from Motets Book II for 5, 6, & 8 voices)
- Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Agnus Dei II
- Alma Redemptoris mater, motet (unspecified of 4)
- Sicut cervus, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices): Part 1
- Sicut cervus, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices): Part 2: Sitivit anima mea
Music reviews of The Greatest Choral Music of Palestrina: Prince of Music
Music Review: Palestrina Ascends
Rating: 5 Stars
I am an active choral singer. I have been in countless ensembles, this interpretation of Palestrina (the greatest word painter of all time) is truly breathetaking. It's worth every penny and I also recommend the beyond chant albums.
Description of The Greatest Choral Music of Palestrina: Prince of Music
Voices of Ascension's Palestrina disc is something of a "greatest hits" collection: a dozen of the prolific composer's best-known motets--including several, such as Super flumina Babilonis, Tu es Petrus, and Sicut cervus, that many listeners will have sung in church or college choirs--and the legendary "Pope Marcellus" Mass. Yet the performance is not the slowly flowing honey usually served up by, say, the Tallis Scholars (as good as that is). Particularly in the Gloria and Credo of the Mass, Dennis Keene deliberately de-emphasizes the rise and fall of the different voices' lines in favor of a more naturally speech-like declamation of the long Latin texts. This means a surprisingly fast tempo--and some rhythmic spring and syncopation one might not expect in Palestrina. Some (not all) of the motets get a similar treatment: it works well in joyous pieces like the Pentecost motet Dum complerentur, but listeners might miss that melodic rise and fall in some of the slower works. The singers of Voices of Ascension are quite skillful, and the slight edge in their tone helps make the different melodies unusually audible. Very worthwhile, but not your father's Palestrina. --Matthew WestphalGeneral CDs
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