Music of Sixteenth-Century Rome
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Composer or Director: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Maria Nanino, Vincenzo Ugolini, Luca Marenzio, Gregorio Allegri
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 12/1984
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL270095-1
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Miserere mei |
Gregorio Allegri, Composer
Gregorio Allegri, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor Timothy Beasley-Murray, Treble/boy soprano |
Adoramus te, Christe |
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Composer
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Magnificat |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
David Briggs, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Luca Marenzio, Composer Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Beata es Virgo Maria |
Vincenzo Ugolini, Composer
David Briggs, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor Vincenzo Ugolini, Composer |
Messa sopra l'aria della Monica |
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Maria Nanino, Vincenzo Ugolini, Luca Marenzio, Gregorio Allegri
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 12/1984
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: EL270095-4
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Miserere mei |
Gregorio Allegri, Composer
Gregorio Allegri, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor Timothy Beasley-Murray, Treble/boy soprano |
Adoramus te, Christe |
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Composer
Giovanni Maria Nanino, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Magnificat |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
David Briggs, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Luca Marenzio, Composer Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Beata es Virgo Maria |
Vincenzo Ugolini, Composer
David Briggs, Organ King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor Vincenzo Ugolini, Composer |
Messa sopra l'aria della Monica |
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Composer
Girolamo Frescobaldi, Composer King's College Choir, Cambridge Stephen Cleobury, Conductor |
Author:
Both here and throughout the record, the choirs are insufficiently separated.
I hope the earlier King's version will continue to remain in the catalogue. If it doesn't there is the version by the Tallis Scholars (CfP), which has even more atmosphere than King's of 1964 (wallowing as it does in the spacious volume of Oxford's Merton College Chapel), and which features the spectral and wonderfully boyish singing of Alison Stamp.
If quality of performance (and—dare I say it?—of music) is to be taken as the criterion for giving a title to a record, then the producers of this issue might have been wiser to give more emphasis to the main work of the second side, Frescobaldi's
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