Palestrina: Masses (Box Set)

Pro Cantione Antiqua - Palestrina: Masses (Box Set)

Palestrina: Masses (Box Set)
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Artist: Pro Cantione Antiqua
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2001-11-13
Music Label: Brilliant Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Ecce venit Dominator Dominus, introitus
  2. Missa L'homme arm?, for 5 voices: Kyrie
  3. Missa L'homme arm?, for 5 voices: Gloria
  4. Omnes de Saba venient, gradual
  5. Missa L'homme arm?, for 5 voices: Credo
  6. Reges Tharsis, offertory
  7. Missa L'homme arm?, for 5 voices: Sanctus & Benedictus
  8. Vidimus stellam, communio
  9. Missa L'homme arm?, for 5 voices: Agnus Dei
  10. Gaudeamus omnes, introit
  11. Missa Assumpta est Maria, for 6 voices: Kyrie
  12. Missa Assumpta est Maria, for 6 voices: Gloria
  13. Propter Veritatem, gradual
  14. Missa Assumpta est Maria, for 6 voices: Credo
  15. Assumpta est Maria, offertorium
  16. Missa Assumpta est Maria, for 6 voices: Sanctus & Benedictus
  17. Optimum partem, communio
  18. Missa Assumpta est Maria, for 6 voices: Agnus Dei
Music CD 2
  1. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria V in Coena Domini. Lectio 1
  2. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria V in Coena Domini. Lectio 2
  3. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria V in Coena Domini. Lectio 3
  4. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria VI in Parasceve
  5. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria VI in Parasceve
  6. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Feria VI in Parasceve
  7. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Sabbato Sancto. Lectio 1
  8. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Sabbato Sancto. Lectio 2
  9. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices: Sabbato Sancto. Lectio 3
Music CD 3
  1. Puer natus est nobis, introit
  2. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Kyrie
  3. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Gloria
  4. Viderunt omnes, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis, No. 409; GR. 33)
  5. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Credo
  6. Tui sunt caeli, offertorium
  7. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Sanctus
  8. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Benedictus
  9. Viderunt Omnes, communion in mode 1 (Liber Usualis, No. 410, GR. 35)
  10. Missa Brevis, for 4 voices: Agnus Dei
  11. Cibavit eos, introit
  12. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Kyrie
  13. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Gloria
  14. Occuli omnium, gradual in mode 7
  15. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Credo
  16. Sacerdotes Domini, offertory
  17. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Sanctus
  18. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Benedictus
  19. Quotiescumque manducabitis panem hunc
  20. Missa Laude Sion, for 4 voices: Agnus Dei
  21. Super flumina Babylonis, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)
  22. Sicut cervus, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)
Music CD 4
  1. Aeterna Christi Munera, hymn in mode 1
  2. Mihi autem, introit
  3. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Kyrie
  4. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Gloria
  5. Constitues eos, graduale
  6. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Credo
  7. Mihi autem, offertory
  8. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Sanctus
  9. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Benedictus
  10. Venite post me, communion in mode 8 (Liber Usualis No. 1306; Graduale Romanum No. 395)
  11. Missa Aeterna Christi munera, for 4 voices: Agnus Dei
  12. In virtute tua, introit
  13. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Kyrie
  14. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Gloria
  15. Beatus vir, gradual in mode 5
  16. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Credo
  17. Gloria et honore, offertory
  18. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Sanctus
  19. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Benedictus
  20. Qui Vult Venire Post Me (Communio)
  21. Missa L'homme arm?, for 4 voices (from Masses Book IV): Agnus Dei
Music CD 5
  1. Gaudeamus omnes, introit
  2. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Kyrie
  3. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Gloria
  4. Propter Veritatem, gradual
  5. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Credo
  6. Assumpta est Maria, offertorium
  7. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Sanctus
  8. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Benedictus
  9. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Agnus Dei I
  10. Missa Papae Marcelli, for 6 voices: Agnus Dei II
  11. Optimum partem, communio
  12. Stabat mater, motet for 8 voices

Music reviews of Palestrina: Masses (Box Set)

Music Review: Where's the Beef? Right Here, in a Bargain Box!
Rating: 5 Stars

Pro Cantione Antiqua has always delivered a robust, almost beefy sound, as if the all-male ensemble had just shed their "old school" rugby togs and put on choir robes. With steady changes in personnel, especially among the countertenors, Pro Cantione Antiqua has been performing since the 1960s, making then 'antique' indeed by Early Music standards. What they do, they usually do well, although they are limited in their expressive, affective range and they tend to sing most things in a kind of default tempo that's neither slow nor fast. They're head and shoulders better, most of the time, than the Westminster Choir or the Oxford Camerata, and I usually find them less mushy than the Tallis Scholars. They're nowhere close to The Clerks' Group or the Orlando Consort, or the Hilliard Ensemble on its better days, but all in all they're a joy to hear.

The 5 CDs in this Brilliant Classics box are all re-issues of recordings PCA made over the past 20 years, with various singers and on various labels. The newest recordings, I believe, are disks 3 &4 - Missa Brevis, Missa Lauda Zion, Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, and Missa L'Homme Arme a 4 - which are still available new in a 2-CD release. These are the best performances, with the best sound. At the other end, disk 1 - Missa L'Homme Arme and Missa Assumpta est Maria - must be a much older performance, a little crude in recording technology and, to my ears, a little too beefy in style. Palestrina masses want to be vigorous but not brusque.

There are numerous recordings of the Missa Papae Marcelli, and most of them are awful. Pro Cantione Antiqua's performance is sturdy and tuneful. It's not, to my ears, the ultimate interpretation, but it's probably the best around.

Not all the compositions in the box are masses. CD2 features Palestrina's "Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet." There is a much better performance of that music on CD, by the French Ensemble Gilles Binchois; it's different enough almost to constitute another composition. This box set also includes Palestrina's motets Super Flumina Babylonis and Stabat Mater. All in all, this is an excellent value, a lot of great music for a reasonable price.

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