Special offer. 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...
Special offer. Palestrina: Missa Dum complerentur
and other music for Whitsuntide
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
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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...
About
The music of the sixteenth-century composer Palestrina is still today at the heart of many of the Roman Catholic services sung all around the world. The congregation at Westminster Cathedral is particularly fortunate to hear on a regular basis this inspirational music sung by one of the finest choirs in the world, and this album focuses on music for Whitsuntide.
(Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.)
This is glorious music and for it Martin Baker has drawn the best from his glorious choir.
Contents and tracklist
Work length6:11
Work length29:40
I. Kyrie
Track length4:42
II. Gloria
Track length5:52
III. Credo
Track length8:49
IV. Sanctus
Track length3:17
V. Benedictus
Track length2:24
VI. Agnus Dei
Track length4:36
anon.:
Alleluia. Veni Sancte Spiritus
Work length2:20
anon.:
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Work length6:37
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Track length2:23
Veni Sancte Spiritus
Track length4:14
Work length8:53
Work length13:41
Awards and reviews
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 your eyes and you can almost smell the incense. Very warmly recommended
The renowned choir are on top form as they respond to Palestrina’s majesty … highly recommended
Here [Martin Baker] reinforces his reputation and that of the choir in energetic accounts of music by Palestrina celebrating Pentecost
Daily Telegraph
Purposeful performances by a choir for whom this music is a staple diet, and whose slightly edgy, “continental” treble sound is ideally suited to it
