I Fagiolini - 1612 Italian Vespers - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Attollite Portas 2. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Triumph with Pleasant Melody 3. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Oh Lord, How Vain 4. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals All in a Garden Green 5. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Domine Secundum Actum Meum 6. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Truth at the First 7. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Who Likes to Love 8. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Wolsey's Wilde 9. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Da Mihi Auxilium 10. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Farewell, False Love 11. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals O Mistrys Myne 12. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Miserere Mihi, Domine 13. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is 14. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals La Volta 15. Early Works for Voices, Viols and Virginals Ad Dominum Cum Tribularer

In the late 16th century when vocal polyphony was developing into the excesses of the late Italian madrigal and the powerplay of multi-choir writing in Venice, Victoria, in Rome, chose to write his 18 Tenebrae settings with the simplest texture imaginable four voices with internal sections for just two or three parts.  These perfect miniatures force the question how can so little mean so much?Victoria's austere yet profoundly moving setting of the Responsories for the services of Tenebrae (shadows) is one of the great classics of Renaissance music.  In this new recording sung by solo voices it is restored to the low pitch and voicing intended by the composer.These perfect miniatures are interspersed with nine of Christopher Reid's heart-rending poems from his 2009 collection and Costa Book of the Year winner, 'A Scattering', a moving collection on the dying and death of his wife. Album Tracks 4. Scattering~The Flowers of Crete (p. 12) 5. Scattering~The Flower of Crete (p. 17) 9. Scattering~The unfinished (No. 5) 10. Scattering~The unfinisted (No. 1) 14. Scattering~A Widower's Dozen - Songbook 18. Scattering~A Widower's Dozen - Late 19. Scattering~A Widower's Dozen - Turns 23. Scattering~A Widower's Dozen - An Italian Market 27. Scattering~A Widower's Dozen - The documents

Two multi-choir Masses from mid-17th-century Rome (one for Easter, the other based on Palestrina's motet for Pentecost) complete I Fagiolini's dazzling series exploring the 'Colossal Baroque' and paying tribute to the 'lost' music of Orazio Benevoli.Maestro of the Cappella Giulia at St Peter's, Rome, Benevoli's mastery of surround-sound is clear in these very different works. The sheer quality of his music shines through and, sung by a group at the height of it's powers, changes our view of 17th-century multi-choir music.All the Masses in I Fagiolini's Benevoli series are premiere recordings. Album Tracks 2. Missa Angelus Domini-Kyrie 9. Missa Dum Complerentur-Gloria 12. Missa Dum Complerentur-Agnus Dei