Choirs from the U.S. and abroad joined series presenting sacred masterworks by Palestrina in their intended setting — the Holy Mass. The series commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

Palestrina’s epoch-defining Mass has been the stuff of legends over the past five centuries. Fabrice Fitch assesses a range of approaches to its recorded performance How fitting that work on this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...

Although this concerto was written in 1932, I love how contemporary it sounds, especially the opening, with its Steve Reich-like interlocking piano parts. The old saying goes: In Poulenc there is ...

COMMENTARY: On tour in the U.S., the Vatican choir revives Palestrina’s legacy with sacred music praised by popes and saints. Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, with a ...

To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary Palestrina was a carpet seller ...

As the Catholic Church recovered from the onslaught of Reformers, Palestrina, back at St Peter's, turned to the writings of the prophet Isaiah for a song of hope and praise. Isaiah was also that ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...

Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers, Giovanni da Palestrina and Carlo Gesualdo. Show more Peter Phillips ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...