MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music for Advent and Christmas

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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music for Advent and Christmas
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 20 October 2003

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What better way to encapsulate the spirit of Christmas than with works of such devotional beauty, all sung with Westminster Cathedral Choir's customary finesse and atmospheric reverence

Martin Baker's first disc of Palestrina with Westminster Cathedral Choir (CDA67353, released in January of this year) was highly praised across the world [my favourite quote being 'Palestrina's mellifluous counterpoint resonates like whipped cream in the cathedral acoustics ... Delicious' (The Scotsman)]. Here follows another delicious disc of Palestrina, this time dedicated to Christmas, the main work being the stunning Missa Hodie Christus natus est - one of Palestrina's most popular works.

What better way to encapsulate the spirit of Christmas than with works of such devotional beauty, all sung with Westminster Cathedral Choir's customary finesse and atmospheric reverence.

Tracks:

Hodie Christus natus est
Missa Hodie Christus natus est
O magnum mysterium
Tui sunt cæli
Deus tu conversus
O admirabile commercium
Canite tuba
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Christe Redemptor
Magnificat primi toni