Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat Le Concert Spirituel & Herve Niquet

• Saint Ambrose (c.340 - 397): Aeterna Christi munera et martyrum victorias:
• 1Aeterna Christi munera et martyrum victorias01:33
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Cantate Domino, SV 293:
• 2Cantate Domino, SV 29301:44
• Orazio Benevolo (1605 - 1672): Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 3Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: I. Kyrie eleison04:44
• 4Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: II. Christe eleison02:58
• 5Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: III. Kyrie eleison II03:15
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594): Mottetorum I:
• 6Mottetorum I: Beata es, virgo Maria01:51
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 7Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: V. Gloria08:03
• Anonymous: Ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo:
• 8Ne avertas faciem tuam a puero tuo01:16
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 9Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VI. Credo13:49
• Girolamo Frescobaldi. Canzon vigesimanona, F 8.54:
• 10Canzon vigesimanona, F 8.5402:37
• Orazio Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 11Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VII. Sanctus01:47
• Anonymous: Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini:
• 12Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini00:49
• Orazio Benevolo: Regna terrae:
• 13Regna terrae03:51
• Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci:
• 14Missa si Deus pro nobis, a 16 voci: VIII. Agnus Dei04:53
• Magnificat a 16 voci:
• 15Magnificat a 16 voci10:41
• Total Runtime01:03:51

Info for Benevolo: Missa si Deus pro nobis & Magnificat

Hervé Niquet possesses two constant character traits: he is an indefatigable excavator of forgotten music, and he loves polyphony and large forms. A few years ago, he caused a sensation by exhuming the monumental music of Striggio. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of his ensemble, Le Concert Spirituel, he now tackles a new peak of polyphony: a mass by Orazio Benevolo (160572) performed by eight choirs of four singers, accompanied by fifteen continuo players. In concert, the choirs are spread out around the nave, with the audience in the middle. Benevolo was born to a Burgundian confectioner father who had emigrated to Rome. Educated at the choir school of San Luigi dei Francesi, he became one of the greatest geniuses of polychorality, a prolific composer who represented the splendours of French art in Rome.

He ended his career as maestro di cappella at the Vatican. This music has been resurrected thanks to the work of the great musicologist Jean Lionnet, who spent many years copying out by hand the music of numerous Italian composers in the Vatican archives, from which it was impossible to borrow documents. As a result of his labours the Missa Si Deus pro nobis has now been recorded, accompanied by vocal and instrumental pieces by Monteverdi, Frescobaldi and Palestrina.

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet, conductor

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