Browse: Palestrina (composer), Masses
This page lists all recordings composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–94).
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Niquet appropriately creates a liturgical framework, weaving plainchant, motets and instrumental items around the main work; these also serve to contrast with and complement the sometimes gluttonously... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, July/August 2018, Nouveauté
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Palestrina: Missa Ecce ego Johannes and other sacred music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O’Donnell
For sheer beauty of sound this recording is unsurpassed — More…
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Unaccompanied, the Monteverdi Choir goes back to its roots in a programme which harnesses scholarship and singing of breathtaking beauty. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Palestrina: Missa De beata virgine & Missa Ave Maria Westminster Cathedral Choir, James O’Donnell
For sheer sumptuousness of sound quality and clarity of text, the performance … ranks alongside the finest — More…
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Veni Domine
RecommendedAdvent & Christmas from the Sistine Chapel
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella
Everything here is sung with extreme subtlety and a delicacy which rather confounded my expectations. Palombella (who, like all his predecessors in the role, is ordained in Holy Orders) clearly... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2017
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Allegri: Miserere & Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli Andrew Carwood, Deborah Roberts, Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor & Donald Greig
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Having thoroughly internalised this music, Phillips creates a reading of great authority. The greatest contrast between the two Merton College recordings… is the choir's sound: this now commands... — More…
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Palestrina: Missa Dum complerentur and other music for Whitsuntide
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a thoughtful, carefully analysed performance—Baker and the Westminster choir communicate a clear sense of the structural logic … the singers are excellent … virtually flawless … shut... — More…
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The subtle ebb and flow of the speed in Vox dilecti, for example, exactly matches the quickening emotions at the sound of the voice of the beloved, and the ascending musical motives at the call... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli & Missa aeterna Christi munera
RecommendedOxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
The performances are as delightful as the music. — More…
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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The Mass sounds both natural and beautiful; indeed the whole piece is an aural feast. The last item is Rore's Regina caeli laetare, Frances Kelly's harp weaving round the soprano line. Magical. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009, Editor's Choice
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