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While Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in Alium is rightly regarded as one of the peaks of late renaissance polyphony, the works that provided its inspiration remain little known. Alessandro ...

Musical fashions may wax and wane, but showmanship never goes out of style. The urge to thrill and impress observers was as strong in the 16th century as it is today, as evidenced by Alessandro ...

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Domine Dominus noster Philippe Rogier, Composer Philip Cave, Conductor His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Magnificat Missa Domine Dominus noster His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Philippe Rogier, ...

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Alessandro Striggio's Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno," a contrapuntal tour de force in 40 voices, was written in the mid-1560s and disappeared into the French national archives a century and a half later ...

Twenty or so years ago, the musicologist Davitt Moroney came across a reference in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris to a 40-part mass by a composer he had never heard of, someone called "Strusco".

Alessandro Striggio the Elder’s Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno was composed around 1565-66. It attracted much attention at the time, but then became lost for over 400 years, although scholars ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A sumptuous first recording of a long-lost 450-year-old Italian Renaissance mass written for 40 different vocal parts has soared onto British pop charts a week after its release.

Alessandro Striggio’s Missa Ecco sì beato giorno starts with a lone soprano voice, giving no clue to the spacious sonorities he is going to explore later on. This is his landmark mid-1500s Mass for 40 ...