Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa "Papae Marcelli": Credo

[manthasagittarius]

Well, I'm sorry to say (because I'd like to like everything that's done with such obvious preparation) that this is not sung in the style it needs -- and not because there is a rigidly "right" way to sing renaissance liturgical music, as some would maintain, but because the acoustics are just too live for the large romantic vocal production.

[michaels7]

This is a very operatic performance. Check out the fine English choral versions for more spiritual and authentic perpectives. This is Palestrina after all, not

Rossini.

[Praenestinus]

@michaels7 ..But Pierluigi is not english

[michaels7]

@Praenestinus Palestrina is not english but he wrote and conducted this music for a boy's choir. Italy has lost this tradition of choral music and in the 18th and 19th centuries and has embraced opera. I think it is important that Palestrina be performed in the mode he wrote, for a boy's choir. This version sounds like a bunch of want to bees opera stars. Hardly appropriate for the music.

[Riverberi]

grande Simone!

[simocucchia]

Caspita! Dovevo esserci anche io li in mezzo a cantare questa messa stupenda ma il fato non mi ha permesso di prendervi parte... dico solo BRAVISSIMO al M. Baiocchi e BRAVISSIMI a tutti/e i/le coristi/e

Saluti da RIccione

[Praenestinus]

Ezio è un'istituzione!

[Antares2602]

...certo con un cantore che è un pezzo di storia della cappella pontificia non poteva che venire bene, grande Ezio!!!

[rumpranger65]

im surprised they let you do anything traditional...