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The instruments transfigure much of this music. They do the heavy lifting for some of the choir parts in the Mass and Ecce beatum lucem, contribute to the spacious sonorities, and add delicate... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Sep 2023
Catalogue No: COR16199
Label: Coro
Length: 68 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

7th March 2011
Gramophone Awards

2011

Winner - Early Music
Building a Library

October 2016

Recommended version with mixed voices and instruments
Diapason d’Or de l’Année

2011

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Striggio: Ecce beatam lucem

Work length7:46

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I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth

Striggio: Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno

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I. Kyrie (Remastered 2023)

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II. Gloria (Remastered 2023)

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III. Credo (Remastered 2023)

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IV. Sanctus (Remastered 2023)

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V. Benedictus (Remastered 2023)

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VI. Agnus Dei I (Remastered 2023)

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VII. Agnus Dei II (Remastered 2023)

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Galilei, V: Contrapunto Secondo di BM

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Striggio: Fuggi, spene mia

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Striggio: O giovenil ardire

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Striggio: Altr’io che queste spighe

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Striggio: D’ogni gratia et d’amor

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Striggio: O de la bella Etruria

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Striggio: Caro dolce ben mio

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Striggio: Misero ohime

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anon.: Spem in alium - Sarum Plainchant (Remastered 2023)

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Tallis: Spem in alium

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NEWLY REMASTERED FOR CORO. I Fagiolini’s re-discovery and recording of Striggio’s long-lost Mass in 40/60 Parts was ground-breaking when it was released in 2011. The premiere recording won awards around the world including the Gramophone Early Music Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France and remains a trailblazing account of this Renaissance epic. It is complemented by Tallis’ Spem in alium which it is said to have inspired. The Gramophone citation particularly mentioned the new lustre brought to the piece by instrumental involvement and the clarity brought to the detail by the use of viols, cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and more. Eight further works by Striggio are also included, each of them premiere recordings in 2011.

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April 2011

The instruments transfigure much of this music. They do the heavy lifting for some of the choir parts in the Mass and Ecce beatum lucem, contribute to the spacious sonorities, and add delicate moments of colour...Without instruments, the I Fagiolini voices can be tender and nuanced.

May 2011

The ear is constantly taken by details in the elephantine crowd, a distant tenor laughing up a scale, an abrasive shawm doubling a choir's 'hosanna'...Tallis's Spem in Alium is performed with instruments, a legitimate and rare event.

May 2011

I Fagiliolini seem to revel in the showy splendour of it all...Hollingworth has chosen his combination of voices and instruments with care...Worth hearing? Definitely.

So, what's all the fuss about? It all comes down to the three 'S's -size, sonority and seductive spirituality (maybe that's four)...one of the most ambitious and worthwhile Early Music projects for years. That it's a hit too can only be a good thing for all concerned. An important and outstanding release.

February 2024

This disc is unique in offering performances of the motets by Striggio and Tallis which are very different from previous recordings, and presenting a mass which is quite exciting... There is every reason to further explore his oeuvre.

7th March 2011

Musically the Striggio is much simpler than the Tallis...But there are other things to enjoy with Striggio’s Italian style, which is often much more intricate and ornate...The disc is superbly recorded, capturing the huge scale of the music, whilst retaining plenty of detail.

3rd March 2011

[I Fagiolini] do not perform Spem in Alium exactly as we are used to hearing it, for conductor Robert Hollingworth adds continuo to the voices there too, giving extra definition to the work's passing dissonances, which take it far beyond the sumptuous but bland harmonic world of Striggio's models.

4th March 2011

Though Striggio's more formal Italian harmonic decorum precludes the kind of harmonic complexities that make Tallis's masterwork such a superb experience, it nonetheless inhabits a powerfully affecting landscape, and is arranged here for period orchestration featuring viols, cornetts, lutes and the like.

27th February 2011

Beautifully performed by I Fagiolini with soloists and countless continuo parts, the polychoral effects are striking but harmonically not very interesting. Striggio's secular madrigals are more alluring, and at the end comes Tallis's more famous 40-part Spem in alium, done here with instruments, incomparably more subtle and moving, a masterpiece.

4th March 2011

Decca’s engineers... did an excellent job balancing individual details against the total sound picture. Striggio’s music isn’t as richly textured as Tallis’s: no dissonant crunches, fewer soaring blasts. Yet you can still get hypnotised by the dappled flow of mellifluous chords, decorated with florid phrases winding round like honeysuckle.

The Daily Telegraph 6th March 2011

[The Striggio's] impact in this premiere recording by the voices and period instruments of I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth is terrific...Far from splurging his ample resources at once, Striggio juxtaposes passages of differing density, guided by the implications of the Mass text, to create a dramatic expanse in which the full effect of the 40 (or 60) voices is all the more powerful for having been kept in reserve.

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