Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus
I Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Week
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's.
Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu Es Petrus
I Fagiolini, The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Recording of the Week
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's.
About
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 its 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.
Contents and tracklist
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
- I Fagiolini, The City Musick
- Robert Hollingworth
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Robert Hollingworth on Benevoli's multi-choir magnificence
7th Nov 2023
The director of I Fagiolini talks about his new album, featuring a four-choir work of unparalleled Baroque splendour by the seventeenth-century Italian composer Orazio Benevoli.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2023
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2024Recording of the Week
April 2024
Recorded here in the round, with a battery of instruments enriching the vocal ensembles, the work engulfs the senses just as it must have done in Benevoli’s day in the echoing spaces of St Peter's.
