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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525-1594)

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Donald Macleod investigates the life of a Renaissance genius, Giovanni da Palestrina

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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