Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Volume I. Album by The Sixteen

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Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale Volume I. Album by The SixteenAlbum Description Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque European composers. He revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and by his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. A variety of forces have been used on all three discs that

The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci falls on 2 May 2019

it is recorded here with the same forces as may well have performed it originally in the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales

Anton Bruckner (1824-96)

Magdalen College

This album features a selection of Palestrina’s music for Pentecost including his Missa Iam Christus astra ascenderat

Romance: Allegretto

Sanctus (from Missa Pulchra es)

Samson opens with a pagan festival and closes with an elegy

“spirited” and “lively and energizing”

Three further Song of Songs motets in The Sixteen’s ongoing survey complete the CD

Since they were founded in 1979 Harry Christophers and The Sixteen have recorded over 100 discs of choral music spanning 600 years

The haunting tones of Allegri's Miserere are unique and instantly recognisable even to those who know little sacred choral music