Palestrina Volume 1. Album by The Sixteen

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Palestrina Volume 1. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description International Classical Music Award Winner 2012 for Early Music Arguably the greatest composer of liturgical music of all time, Palestrina was a towering figure in Renaissance polyphony. On this disc The Sixteen explores some of the outstanding music he wrote for the Assumption including his Mass and Motet Assumpta est Maria. Without doubt, Palestrina was the great master of all Papal composers and his spiritual craft and harmonic

William Byrd (1539/40-1623)

and its Informator Choristarum

Resonet in laudibus

Five Spirituals from 'A Child of Our Time'

from the assertive Sonata No

Retir’d from any mortal’s sight Z

To Daffodils

Miserere nostri

Tracks 9-20 previously released on COR16042

It explores the use of music for ceremonial

Total running time: 69

contrasted with the composers' private use of biblical texts to give public vent to their own sometimes dangerous views in an England torn by political and religious strife

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