Decca is proud to present I Fagiolini in the world-premiere recording of Alessandro Striggio's 40-part mass Ecco si beato giorno, available March 29th. The work, long rumored to exist but only ...

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 ...

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 ...

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".

Beata viscera Hervé Niquet, Conductor (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Anonymous, Composer Laetatus sum Orazio Benevoli, Composer (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Hervé Niquet, Conductor ...

The first thing anybody notices about Fleet Foxes is the band’s sound: something like John Denver in a fallout shelter, or Crosby, Stills and Nash singing in a gigantic underground cavern. You can ...

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.

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, ...

Alessandro Striggio's 1566 mass, performed by 40 choristers, sees voices, strings and brass meld into a jaw-dropping harmony. The mass was first performed in the 16th century, touring Europe, before ...

I Fagiolini here presents the premiere recording of Striggio's recently discovered Mass composed for five choirs of eight parts apiece, which is presumed to be the inspiration for Thomas Tallis's ...

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 ...