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Orazio Benevoli: Missa Benevola
I Fagiolini (early music ensemble), The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register.
Orazio Benevoli: Missa Benevola
I Fagiolini (early music ensemble), The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
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Awards:
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register.
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The second in I Fagiolini’s series exploring the ‘Colossal Baroque’ and the dazzling multi-choir soundworld of Orazio Benevoli – a crucial ‘lost’ figure in 17th-century Italian music. The four-choir work on this new recording, 'Missa Benevola', is accentuated with even more instrumental colour to allow the ear to appreciate the dance between the four separated ensembles. Enjoy the famous ‘mule’ technique that Handel noted 50 years later and then re-used in Messiah. Alongside this, Carissimi’s well-known Jephte transposed to the lower pitch used in Rome at the time, injecting a more profound colour into both individual voices and its famously plangent final chorus. All the Masses in I Fagiolini’s Benevoli series are 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
- Julia Doyle (soprano), Greg Skidmore (baritone)
- I Fagiolini
- Robert Hollingworth
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Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
Awards Issue 2024
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register.
9th October 2024
Hollingworth’s ensemble, supported by the wind players of the City Musick, perform this multi-choir spectacular with such panache...the Mass is a sumptuous piece that cannily reserves the fullest polyphony for climactic moments and is human enough to greet Jesus’s resurrection with a deliriously happy knees-up.
