Allegri: Missa in lectulo meo; Missa Christus resurgens; Miserere; Motets – review

Choir of King's College London/Trendell (Delphian)Best known for a piece he didn't really write – the famous Miserere is a decorated version of a chant setting which Mozart later wrote down from memory – Gregorio Allegri's other music is not much heard. The rich sonorities of the two eight-part masses, recorded here for the first time, place Allegri (1582-1652) directly in the Palestrina line of counter-reformation composers, and the word-setting is direct and expressive, rising to a ...

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