Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Missa Fratres ego enim accepi

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Missa Fratres ego enim accepi
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (ca. 1525 - 1594)
Performers: The Sixteen, dir. Harry Christophers

0:00 Kyrie
4:42 Gloria
9:22 Credo
17:15 Sanctus
19:31 Benedictus
22:01 Agnus Dei
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"The Missa Fratres ego enim accepi is of course based on the music of Palestrina’s motet of the same name. One of his grandest and finest Masses, it was only published posthumously in 1601, accompanied by three other 8-voice Masses. The motet was issued in print even later, in 1614 (Rome) and 1617 (Strasbourg), in anthologies with added basso continuo parts. The opening of the motet, characterised by the falling interval of a 4th in the alto
with the falling 5th in the soprano, is mirrored in the Mass at the start of each of the five main sections: e.g. the Credo begins with almost exact quotation from the motet, also including the 2nd section at “visibilium omnium” (= “Quod et tradidi vobis”) as choir II enters. Palestrina reworks the opening motifs more extensively when beginning the Sanctus and Agnus Dei, but again quotes directly when choir II sings “Dominus Deus Sabaoth” (= “Dominus Jesus in qua nocte”).

~Martyn Imrie

Source: CD booklet
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