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This is the eighth release in The Sixteen’s recordings of selected works by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Previous reviews have noted Christopher’s direction for his deep sensitivity to the subtle ebb and flow of the polyphony and a careful balancing of the voices, and that applies here (July/Aug 2013, Mar/Apr & Nov/Dec 2014, Nov/Dec 2015). Aside from the three motets drawn from Palestrina’s cycle from the Song of Songs, the theme of this release is the Last Supper as found in texts associated with Maundy Thursday and the feast of Corpus Christi. The motet ‘Fratres ego enim accepi’ uses a text from the Offertory at the Maundy Thursday Mass, and the Mass Palestrina based on this motet would have been appropriate for either that celebration or Corpus Christi. Both the model and the Mass are written in the grand Roman polychoral style of the post-Tridentine era. Other motets included also relate to the celebration of

Communion, ‘Ego sum panis vivus’, ‘Accepit Jesus calicem’, ‘Caro mea vere est cibus’, and ‘Sacredotes Domini’. Two other selections are the Easter sequence, ‘Victimae paschali laudes’, with the text from the revised Missal of 1570, and the hymn, ‘Pange lingua’, used for both Corpus Christi and Holy Week, whose fifth verse, “Tantum ergo sacramentum” was often excerpted for use at Communion.

Again, Christophers has supplied an intelligent selection of Palestrina’s music that reminds us of Palestrina’s significance and influence.

 

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