Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini - Orazio Benevoli: Missa Tu es Petrus; Graziani, Palestrina: Motets (2023)
EAC| FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 260 Mb | Total time: 58:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Coro | # COR16201 | Recorded: 2023
EAC| FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 260 Mb | Total time: 58:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Coro | # COR16201 | Recorded: 2023
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.