I Fagiolini Striggio: Mass in 40 parts

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For more information on the album visit: http://striggio.ifagiolini.com/

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Just some of the reviews for this sensational album:

'Subtle and moving' - The Observer

'a powerfully affecting landscape' - The Independent

'Enough to test anyone's hi-fi equipment' - The Times

'40 voices hitting you beautifully left and right' - The Times

'Beautifully performed by I Fagiolini with soloists and countless continuo parts, the polychoral effects are striking ... a masterpiece.' - The Guardian

'Its impact in this premiere recording by the voices and period instruments of I Fagiolini under Robert Hollingworth is terrific ... Tallis, in a healthy show of one-upmanship, devised much trickier part-writing for Spem in alium, as anyone who has sung it will know, but the two works complement one another perfectly. ' - The Daily Telegraph

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This trailer on Decca's recording with I Fagiolini reveals a work by the Italian Alessandro Striggio -- believed lost until the recent discovery of vocal parts, in Paris. Striggio's 40-part mass Ecco sì beato giorno was based on his own 40-part motet Ecce beatam lucem, which is also included on the album. The mass is a spectacularly colorful and dramatic work, which in the final Agnus Dei calls for no fewer than 60 individual vocal parts.

I Fagiolini is an acclaimed British solo-voice ensemble specialising in Renaissance and Contemporary music. An inspired programmer, Robert Hollingworth founded the group in 1986.

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• decca
• classics
• renaissance
• aessandro
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• 40
• part
• mass
• robert
• hollingworth
• fagiolini
• live music
• tallis
• spem
• in
• alium

[ShawDAMAN]

@squeakyla I guess I am prejudiced. What I'm saying is I rank Rembrandt or Michelangelo higher than a newspaper cartoonist even though both are 'talented.' I rank a brilliant organist higher than a brilliant ukulele player. And I rank a man who writes an incredible symphony for hundreds of instruments and voices, with a great uplifting message, higher than a man who writes a 2 minute studio-processed rap replete with profanity (not as people but as artists.) We agree on Beiber/Swift at least. ;)

[ShawDAMAN]

@squeakyla P.S. I also think that the value and inherent talent (even of something like music which is so extremely subject to personal taste) can be measured to some degree. And I'm sorry, but I do consider Beethoven and Mozart etc as much greater talents than say Taylor Swift, Justin Beiber and yes, Eminem etc etc. Are they 'good at what they do?' Sure. But I consider what they do to be of far less intrinsic value and talent than what classical composers accomplish(ed.)

[3Monteverdi]

Enough to convert a secure aethist to God! Wonderful delivery. Congratulations

[bikebrains]

I just got the CD and DVD combo. The sound is awesome! One caution: Make sure that the format of the DVD will work in your DVD player. I live in the USA and my Magnavox DVD player made in 2005 will not play the DVD. My HP PC made in 2011 will play the DVD.

[goo1a]

fap

[Rocktheworld1998]

loving this, very talented well done robert XX<3 hope your well

[stratfordct]

IMHO this is breathtakingly beautiful regardless of the listener's religious beliefs (or lack thereof).  I will definitely download this one from Amazon or iTunes....

[greve]

I am enormously glad to now be able to hear this gorgeously glorious music! Amazing work of Striggio!

[allengarvin]

I heard the Striggio a40 mass on BBC radio 3 or 4 years ago, performed by the Tallis Scholars... but I didn't have a recording until the I Fagiolini recording that came out last month. I've been listening to this for a couple weeks on the drive to work. Thank you! Marvelous recording.

[chelseane2007]

really awsome i ove it!! godbyones channel

[76kitt]

Robert Hollingworth is hot!

[donricardo427]

Amazon will have the complete work for shipment around 3/29/11. I just purchased it for shipment when available.