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I Fagiolini explore the dazzling multi-choir soundworld of Orazio Benevoli - a crucial figure in 17th-century Italian music. As maestro of the papal choir and providing four-choir masses for special occasions, Benevoli invigorated the multi-choir style with vocal lines full of cross-rhythms, and voluptuous tutti sections with unexpected dissonances. Despite it's beauty and historical importance, there have been few attempts to record Benevoli's music. His Missa Tu es Petrus - recorded here for the first time - was based on Palestrina's famous motet and perhaps written for the newly finished basilica of St Peter in Rome. It appears here alongside four delightful solo-voice motets by his contemporary Bonifazio Graziani, each of them premiere recordings Album Tracks 1. Tu es Petrus a6 2. Missa Tu es Petrus~Kyrie 3. Missa Tu es Petrus~Gloria 4. Domine, ne in furore tuo 5. Missa Tu es Petrus~Credo 6. Venite gentes 7. Missa Tu es Petrus~Sanctus 8. Missa Tu es Petrus~Agnus Dei 9. Ad mensam dulcissimi 10. Justus ut palma
