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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)
Donald Macleod investigates the life of a Renaissance genius, Giovanni da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) was one of the most influential composers in European classical music. With his countless masses, motets and madrigals, infused with a deep sense of spirituality and musical beauty, Palestrina was named the 'Saviour of Church Music' at a revolutionary time when Rome was rewriting the rules of music composition. But what do we know about this mysterious character, between historical fact and hagiographic myth? Donald Macleod follows the clues, to try and reconstruct the story of a fascinating composer, on the (approximately) 500th anniversary of his birth.
Music Featured:
Sicut cervus
Laudate pueri
Pueri hebraeorum (arr for dobro)
Puer qui natus est
Missa Assumpta est Maria (excerpt)
Josquin des Prez: O virgo prudentissima
Josquin des Prez: Fortuna d’un gran tempo
Costanzo Festa: Sancta Maria succurre miseris
Sacred Madrigals, Book 2, Città di Dio
Ricercar del primo tuono
Magnificat Primi toni
Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus (Sanctus)
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
Pulchra es, amica mea (arr Volbers for recorder ensemble)
Missa Papae Marcelli (excerpt)
Vergine bella… Vergine saggia…
Vestiva i colli
Sabbato Sancto: Lectio III, Incipit oratio Ieremiae prophetae
Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum – liber primus
Misso Herodes
Nicola Vicentino: Jerusalem convertere
Cristóbal de Morales: Gaude et laetare, Ferrariensis civitas
Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum (Fuit homo missus a Deo)
Missa Papae Marcelli (Sanctus)
Ricercar del secondo tuono
Missa sine nomine a 6 arr Johann Sebastian Bach
L'homme armé (exceprt)
Adoramus te Christe arr Leopold Stokowski for orchestra
O admirabile commercium
Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (excerpt)
Io son ferito (instrumental version)
Missa Brevis (excerpt)
Canite tuba (arr for brass ensemble)
Deh hor foss’io col vago della luna (on a text by Petrarch)
Offertoria totius anni (Jubilate Deo) arr A. Frackenpohl for brass ensemble
Stabat Mater
Missa pro defunctis (Sanctus-Benedictus)
First Book of Madrigals (Sestina. Mai fu piu crud’o spietata morte)
Ad te levavi
Johann Joseph Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum (Fugue)
Francesco Soriano: Alpha à 6
Canticum Canticorum (Osculetur me osculo oris sui)
Missa Memor esto verbi tui a 5 (Credo)
Missa Cantantibus organis (from the motet Cantantibus Organis by Palestrina)
Sacred Madrigals, Book 2 (E questo spirto)
Libera me Domine
Ave Maria
Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Julien Rosa for BBC Audio Wales & West
For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d7cq
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
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Donald Macleod investigates the life of a Renaissance genius, Giovanni da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) was one of the most influential composers in European classical music. With his countless masses, motets and madrigals, infused with a deep sense of spirituality and musical beauty, Palestrina was named the 'Saviour of Church Music' at a revolutionary time when Rome was rewriting the rules of music composition. But what do we know about this mysterious character, between historical fact and hagiographic myth? Donald Macleod follows the clues, to try and reconstruct the story of a fascinating composer, on the (approximately) 500th anniversary of his birth.
Music Featured:
Sicut cervus
Laudate pueri
Pueri hebraeorum (arr for dobro)
Puer qui natus est
Missa Assumpta est Maria (excerpt)
Josquin des Prez: O virgo prudentissima
Josquin des Prez: Fortuna d’un gran tempo
Costanzo Festa: Sancta Maria succurre miseris
Sacred Madrigals, Book 2, Città di Dio
Ricercar del primo tuono
Magnificat Primi toni
Missa Ecce sacerdos magnus (Sanctus)
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui
Pulchra es, amica mea (arr Volbers for recorder ensemble)
Missa Papae Marcelli (excerpt)
Vergine bella… Vergine saggia…
Vestiva i colli
Sabbato Sancto: Lectio III, Incipit oratio Ieremiae prophetae
Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum – liber primus
Misso Herodes
Nicola Vicentino: Jerusalem convertere
Cristóbal de Morales: Gaude et laetare, Ferrariensis civitas
Motecta festorum totius anni cum Communi Sanctorum (Fuit homo missus a Deo)
Missa Papae Marcelli (Sanctus)
Ricercar del secondo tuono
Missa sine nomine a 6 arr Johann Sebastian Bach
L'homme armé (exceprt)
Adoramus te Christe arr Leopold Stokowski for orchestra
O admirabile commercium
Missa Ut re mi fa sol la (excerpt)
Io son ferito (instrumental version)
Missa Brevis (excerpt)
Canite tuba (arr for brass ensemble)
Deh hor foss’io col vago della luna (on a text by Petrarch)
Offertoria totius anni (Jubilate Deo) arr A. Frackenpohl for brass ensemble
Stabat Mater
Missa pro defunctis (Sanctus-Benedictus)
First Book of Madrigals (Sestina. Mai fu piu crud’o spietata morte)
Ad te levavi
Johann Joseph Fux: Gradus ad Parnassum (Fugue)
Francesco Soriano: Alpha à 6
Canticum Canticorum (Osculetur me osculo oris sui)
Missa Memor esto verbi tui a 5 (Credo)
Missa Cantantibus organis (from the motet Cantantibus Organis by Palestrina)
Sacred Madrigals, Book 2 (E questo spirto)
Libera me Domine
Ave Maria
Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Julien Rosa for BBC Audio Wales & West
For full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002d7cq
And you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we’ve featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
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