A concert of Renaissance Christmas music might seem like an odd place for a world premiere, but a new composition by Nico Muhly found a way to harmonize with the polyphony of Palestrina, Byrd, and ...

Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers, Giovanni da Palestrina and Carlo Gesualdo. Show more Peter Phillips ...

The Holy Father offered his praise to polyphonic music while welcoming participants at the June 18 event commemorating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, a ...

Palestrina’s epoch-defining Mass has been the stuff of legends over the past five centuries. Fabrice Fitch assesses a range of approaches to its recorded performance How fitting that work on this ...

Choirs from the U.S. and abroad joined series presenting sacred masterworks by Palestrina in their intended setting — the Holy Mass. The series commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

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Palestrina's place in musical history is assured by his mass settings which so firmly hit the Counter-Reformation button of being intelligible, not over-decorated, and devotional in tone. But he also ...

What’s the deal here? Palestrina is an amazing Renaissance composer and this recording is much welcome, but isn’t acapella early music a little high-brow for the 21 st century everything-is-crossover ...