Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...
Last week’s instalment was a fine example of composer’s ego run riot. In this week’s, the composer almost disappears. This might seem an odd thing to say about Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (the ...
The Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...
Palestrina's place in musical history is assured by his mass settings which so firmly hit the Counter-Reformation button of being intelligible, not over-decorated, and devotional in tone. But he also ...
The Laudate Pueri Choir had introduced the composer's choral music to the Maltese islands The Laudate Pueri Choir of St George’s basilica is launching its 50th anniversary celebrations by paying ...
A music film on the life of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a famous Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century composer of the Roman School.
Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...
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