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Before there was Thomas Tallis’s celebrated 40-voice motet ‘Spem in alium’ there was Alessandro Striggio’s 40-part mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’: a sumptuous Renaissance epic in surround sound. Lost for centuries, the mass was only re-discovered a few decades ago when the musicologist Davitt Moroney tracked it through a series of very obscure references in French archives. The first modern-day performance was given at the Proms in 2007 and this year the vast arena of the Royal Albert Hall will resonate to the sounds of the acclaimed French early music specialists Le Concert Spirituel.
Broadcast programme:
Alessandro Striggio - Mass ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’
Performers: Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, conductor