Palestrina: Missa Assumpta Est Maria; Song of Songs Nos 9–11 - review

The Sixteen(Coro)Having rounded off their survey of Victoria's music just in time for this year's 400th anniversary of his death, Harry Christophers and the Sixteen are now switching their attention to his great Italian contemporary. This is the first release in a projected series of Palestrina discs, each centred on one of his masses. Here it is the Missa Assumpta Est Maria, which was probably composed in 1555 to mark the accession of Pope Marcellus II. Christophers frames it with other Marian ...

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