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.
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Orazio Benevoli
Laetatus sum
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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"
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Maurice Ravel
Noctuelles (Miroirs, No. 1)
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Maurice Ravel
Miroirs, M. 43 - No. 2, Oiseaux tristes
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Maurice Ravel
Une barque sur l'océan (Miroirs, No 3)
- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 12.
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Maurice Ravel
Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs, No.4)
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Maurice Ravel
La vallée des cloches (Miroirs, No 5)
Performer: Bruce Liu.- WAVES: Music by Rameau, Ravel, Alkan.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
- 14.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons, Op. 37a: I. January. At the Fireside
Performer: Bruce Liu.- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
February - Carnival (The Seasons)
Performer: Bruce Liu.- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Seasons, Op. 37a: IV. April. Snowdrop
Performer: Bruce Liu.- Tchaikovsky: The Seasons.
- Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
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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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