Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter It's not the first thing you'd expect to see in the pop charts alongside Bon Jovi and Duffy: a choral work in 40 parts by a composer ...

Decca is proud to present I Fagiolini in the world-premiere recording of Alessandro Striggio's 40-part mass Ecco si beato giorno, available March 29th. The work, long rumored to exist but only ...

The rediscovery a few years ago of Striggio's astonishing mass in 40 parts, by the scholar Davitt Moroney, was a sensational event: there have already been two separate editions, and now that the mass ...

Musical fashions may wax and wane, but showmanship never goes out of style. The urge to thrill and impress observers was as strong in the 16th century as it is today, as evidenced by Alessandro ...

The first thing anybody notices about Fleet Foxes is the band’s sound: something like John Denver in a fallout shelter, or Crosby, Stills and Nash singing in a gigantic underground cavern. You can ...

While Thomas Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in Alium is rightly regarded as one of the peaks of late renaissance polyphony, the works that provided its inspiration remain little known. Alessandro ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A sumptuous first recording of a long-lost 450-year-old Italian Renaissance mass written for 40 different vocal parts has soared onto British pop charts a week after its release.

Beata viscera Hervé Niquet, Conductor (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Anonymous, Composer Laetatus sum Orazio Benevoli, Composer (Le) Concert Spirituel Vocal Ensemble Hervé Niquet, Conductor ...

This 1566 Florentine mass, “Ecce si beato giorno,” commissioned by Cosimo de Medici as a gift to the Pope, had 40 separate vocal parts, with the option of instruments to double them. The mass was only ...

I Fagiolini here presents the premiere recording of Striggio's recently discovered Mass composed for five choirs of eight parts apiece, which is presumed to be the inspiration for Thomas Tallis's ...

Alessandro Striggio’s Missa Ecco sì beato giorno starts with a lone soprano voice, giving no clue to the spacious sonorities he is going to explore later on. This is his landmark mid-1500s Mass for 40 ...