This movement just drive relentlessly forward. Exhausting, but hauntingly beautiful. Kyrie eléison (Κύριε, ἐλέησον) Lord, have mercy Christe eléison (Χριστέ, ἐλέησον) Christ, have mercy
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Renaissance Interlude – Missa Papae Marcelli – Palestrina (Kyrie)
Polyphony is saved. 🙂 The mass was composed in honor of Pope Marcellus II, who reigned for three weeks in 1555. Recent scholarship suggests the most likely date of composition is 1562, when it was copied into a manuscript at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.[4] The third
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Haydn’s Nelson Mass
I’ve found a much better version of one of my favorite masses. The soprano soloist is amazing in this version. Haydn’s chief biographer, H. C. Robbins Landon, has written that this mass “is arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”.[1] Written in 1798, it is one of the six late masses by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Choral Interlude: Kyrie from Lord Nelson Mass Haydn
Haydn’s chief biographer, H. C. Robbins Landon, has written that this mass “is arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”.[1] Written in 1798, it is one of the six late masses by Haydn for the Esterhazy family composed after taking a short hiatus, during which elaborate church music was inhibited by
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