Release Date: 28 July 2013
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 747313309672
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Palestrina
Description
Palestrina's Fourth Book of Motets was dedicated to his patron Pope Gregory XIII and published in Rome in 1584. He took as his text The Song of Songs (also known as The Song of Solomon) and the 29 motets, written in an age of religious tumult and Counter-Reformation, evoke the love of Christ in devotional music of chamber-like refinement and joy. This recording also includes plainchant antiphons related to the texts, and ends with a motet of 1583, Afferentur Regi. Palestrina, the 'saviour of polyphony', remains one of the most recorded composers of his age. These deeply evocative, devotional motets were written in 1583 in an age of religious disorder and tumult. Naxos's disc has distinguishing features in that it adds plainchant antiphons related to the texts and ends with a motet of 1583, Afferentur Regi.
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Azulejos Guitar Duo
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
The Brahms Trio
Roman Fediurko
Sonia Prina, Luan Goes, Les Furiosi Galantes
Various Artists from Berlin Philharmonic
Jacques Mauger
Kathodos
Tassilo Probst
Sungbin Cho
Samuil Feinberg
Rodolfo Ritter
