Recording
Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus - Mass for Four Choirs
I Fagiolini and The City Musick
Share this
FIRST PUBLISHED 28 DEC 2023
In mid-17th century Rome, Orazio Benevoli brilliantly invigorated the multi-choir style. This new recording by I Fagiolini and The City Musick presents the greatest of these.
Maestro of the Cappella Giulia, Benevoli wrote these flamboyant masses for the finest churches in Rome. The most splendid occasions required doubling or even tripling the four choirs along the nave of a cathedral, each extra ensemble on a specially-built platform (carpenter payment records still survive!)
‘Benevoli’s Mass is remarkable… Sonic bliss… awash in gloriousness… both subtle and shocking… Like Italian sunshine… musical magic’ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Gramophone
Find out more about Missa Tu Es Petrus and buy a copy on the I Fagiolini website.
This project was supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation
Supported by Continuo Foundation
Share this
Keep reading
Bellot Ensemble performs Strozzi’s 'Che si può fare'
Bellot Ensemble performs Barbara Strozzi’s Che si può fare, with soprano Lucine Musaelian, at St Mary Le Strand, London.
In conversation: Elitsa Bogdanova
Continuo Connect meets Elitsa Bogdanova, member of the Consone Quartet with a busy career as a freelance viola player.
What Joy So True - anthems and motets by Thomas Weelkes
What Joy So True - anthems and motets by Thomas Weelkes, a recording from the Rose Consort of Viols and the Choir of Chichester Cathedral