Album Description
I Fagiolini’s re-discovery and recording of Striggio’s longlost Mass in 40/60 Parts was ground-breaking when it was released in 2011. The premiere recording won awards around the world including the Gramophone Early Music Award and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année in France and remains a trailblazing account of this Renaissance epic. It is complemented on this album by Tallis’s Spem in alium which it is said to have inspired. The Gramophone citation particularly mentioned the new lustre brought to the piece by instrumental involvement and the clarity brought to the detail by the use of viols, cornetts, sackbuts, dulcians and more. Eight further works by Striggio are also included, each of them premiere recordings in 2011.
Artists
I Fagiolini
Robert Hollingworth
Track Listing
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO (c.1536/7–92)
Ecce beatam lucem
STRIGGIO
Missa Ecco sì beato giorno
VINCENZO GALILEI (c. late 1520s–91)
Contrapunto Secondo
STRIGGIO
Fuggi, spene mia
O giovenil ardire
Altr’io che queste spighe
D’ogni gratia et d’amor
O de la bella Etruria invitto Duce
Caro dolce ben mio
Miser’oimè
Sarum plainchant
THOMAS TALLIS (c.1505–85)
Spem in alium
Total time: 68.55
Newly re-mastered for release on CORO
