Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Le Concert Spirituel & Herve Niquet

• Saint Ambrose (c.340 - 397): Aeterna Christi munera et martyrum victorias:
• 1 Aeterna Christi munera et martyrum victorias 01:33
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Cantate Domino, SV 293:
• 2 Cantate Domino, SV 293 01:44
• Orazio Benevolo (1605 - 1672): Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 3 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: I. Kyrie eleison 04:44
• 4 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: II. Christe eleison 02:58
• 5 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: III. Kyrie eleison II 03:15
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594): Mottetorum I:
• 6 Mottetorum I: Beata es, virgo Maria 01:51
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 7 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: V. Gloria 08:03
• Anonymous: Ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo:
• 8 Ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo 01:16
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 9 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VI. Credo 13:49
• Girolamo Frescobaldi. Canzon vigesimanona, F 8.54:
• 10 Canzon vigesimanona, F 8.54 02:37
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 11 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VII. Sanctus 01:47
• Anonymous: Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini:
• 12 Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini 00:49
• Orazio Benevolo: Regna terrae:
• 13 Regna terrae 03:51
• Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 14 Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VIII. Agnus Dei 04:53
• Magnificat a 16 voci:
• 15 Magnificat a 16 voci 10:41
• Total Runtime 01:03:51

Info for Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat

Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and large forms. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of his ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel, he now tackles a new peak of polyphony: a mass by Orazio Benevolo (160572) performed by eight choirs of four singers, accompanied by fifteen continuo players. In concert, the choirs are spread out around the nave, with the audience in the middle. Benevolo was born to a Burgundian confectioner father who had emigrated to Rome. Educated at the choir school of San Luigi dei Francesi, he became one of the greatest geniuses of polychorality, a prolific composer who represented the splendours of French art in Rome.

He ended his career as maestro di cappella at the Vatican. This music has been resurrected thanks to the work of the great musicologist Jean Lionnet, who spent many years copying out by hand the music of numerous Italian composers in the Vatican archives, from which it was impossible to borrow documents. As a result of his labours the Missa Si Deus pro nobis has now been recorded, accompanied by vocal and instrumental pieces by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi and Palestrina.

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, conductor

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