
Palestrina
The Golden Renaissance
The final release in Stile Antico’s ‘Golden Renaissance’ trilogy on the Decca Classics label commemorates 500 years since the birth of the quintessential composer of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The album is based around Palestrina’s famous Missa Papae Marcelli, the mass setting which is reputed to have saved church music from being banned by the Catholic Church. It also honours Palestrina’s connections with the Papal Chapel at St Peter’s Rome and the church Santa Maria Maggiore.
Recorded: July, 2024
Label: Decca
Format: CD
Catalogue Number: 487079 1
Stile Antico sings this complex yet elegantly polished music with the group’s usual combination of lushness and focus, stillness and energy, bringing expression and nuance to what can sometimes slip into coolly uniform gorgeousness.
New York Times
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No matter how elaborate the counterpoint, there are no hesitations, no rough edges.
Geoff Brown, The Times (14 January, 2025)
Stile Antico sings this complex yet elegantly polished music with the group’s usual combination of lushness and focus, stillness and energy, bringing expression and nuance to what can sometimes slip into coolly uniform gorgeousness.
Zachary Woolfe, New York Times (30 January, 2025)
- Exultate Deo
- Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie
- Tu es Petrus
- Missa Papae Marcelli: Gloria
- Sicut cervus
- Missa Papae Marcelli: Credo
- Laudate Dominum in tympanis a 12
- Missa Papae Marcelli: Sanctus & Benedictus
- Salve Regina a 5
- Missa Papae Marcelli: Agnus Dei
- Assumpta est Maria