Palestrina: Missa sine nomine a6
Renaissance polyphony is generally held to be stately, calm, reassuring. But this pro- gramme of Palestrina’s six-part Missa sine nomine, complemented by five of his motets and three by Marc’Antonio Ingegneri (c. 1535/36–92), was recorded after the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, had undertaken a tour of Israel and Palestine. There the music and its texts (‘How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?’) took on an extraordinary poignancy, with the dispossession and desperation of thousands of years ago animating the restrained dignity of Palestrina’s counterpoint with an unexpectedly topical intensity.
Choir of Girton College, Cambridge
Historic Brass of the Guildhall School and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Jeremy West, leader
James Mitchell, organ (Track 8)
Lucy Morrell, organ (Track 13)
Gareth Wilson, director
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MARC’ANTONIO INGEGNERI
- Super flumina Babylonis (publ. 1589)*
- Deus qui dedisti (publ. 1569)*
- Missa sine nomine a6: I Kyrie (publ. 1590)**
- Judica me, Deus (publ. 1575)*
- Missa sine nomine a6: II Gloria
- Duo Seraphim clamabant (publ. 1589)*
- Missa sine nomine a6: III Credo
- Ricercar Quarti Toni*
- Missa sine nomine a6: IV Sanctus
- Missa sine nomine a6: V Benedictus
- Accepit Jesus Calicem (publ. 1575)*
- Missa sine nomine a6: VI Agnus Dei
- Ricercar Octavi Toni*
- Unus ex duobus (publ. 1569)*
- Tu es Petrus (publ. 1572)**
- Lauda Sion (publ. 1589)*
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA
INGEGNERI
PALESTRINA
INGEGNERI
*FIRST RECORDINGS
**FIRST RECORDS IN THIS VERSION
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