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Le Concert Spirituel

Live at the ѿý Proms: Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel in Striggio's epic Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno', as well as works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.

Live at the ѿý Proms: Hervé Niquet conducts Le Concert Spirituel in Striggio's epic Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno', as well as works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.

Presented by Hannah French, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Striggio Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno
Striggio Motet ‘Ecce beatam lucem
Interspersed with works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet (director)

Before there was Tallis’s mighty Spem in alium there was Striggio’s 40-part Mass: a sumptuous Renaissance epic in surround sound. Lost for centuries, it returns to the Proms in the expert hands of period specialists Le Concert Spirituel under Hervé Niquet. Their musical ritual – a concert recreation of a festal Mass – also includes the ‘heavenly harmony’ of the equally striking (and supersized) Ecce beatam lucem and music by Italian 16th- and 17th-century composers Benevolo and Coteccia, as well as motets by Palestrina, whose 500th anniversary falls this year.

The programme will also be interspersed with works by Benevolo, Corteccia and Palestrina.

There will be no interval.

4 days left to listen

1 hour, 59 minutes

Music Played

  • Orazio Benevoli

    Laetatus sum

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Orazio Benevoli

    Miserere

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Francesco Corteccia

    Bonum est confiteri - Gloria Patri: doxologie

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    40-parts Mass "Ecco si beato Giorno": Kyrie

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Domenico Massenzio

    Ave Maria caelorum

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    40-parts Mass "Ecco si beato Giorno": Gloria

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Peccavimus

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Francesco Corteccia

    Alleluia: graduel

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    40-parts Mass "Ecco si beato Giorno": Credo

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Beata est Virgo Maria

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Orazio Benevoli

    Magnificat

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    40-parts Mass "Ecco si beato Giorno": Sanctus - Benedictus

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Pater noster

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Domenico Massenzio

    Filiae Jerusalem

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    40-parts Mass "Ecco si beato Giorno" - Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Francesco Corteccia

    Tu puer prophetas altissimi: communion

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Alessandro Striggio

    Motet "Ecce beatam lucem"

    Ensemble: Le Concert Spirituel.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Noctuelles (Miroirs, No. 1)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs, M. 43 - No. 2, Oiseaux tristes

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
  • Maurice Ravel

    Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs, No 3)

    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 12.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs, No.4)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Maurice Ravel

    La vallée des cloches (Miroirs, No 5)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 14.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37a: I. January. At the Fireside

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    February - Carnival (The Seasons)

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, Op. 37a: IV. April. Snowdrop

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 4.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: X. October. Autumn Song

    Performer: Bruce Liu.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 10.

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