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As his starting point for a brand new recording of the music from the polychoral Renaissance and the "monumental Baroque", with Alessandro Striggio's 40 and 60-part Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno leading the way, Hervé Niquet turns to the musical celebrations for a feast day occasion in the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence in honour of St John the Baptist, adding a trio of works by Orazio Benevoli, another specialist in multi-parted choral works, and Striggio's motet Ecce beatem lucem, also scored for 40 voices.
For sessions in Notre-Dame du Liban in Paris, using an edition of the Mass by Dominique Visse, originating in 1978, Niquet gathered 60 singers (as called for in the Agnus Dei) plus instrumentalists of Le Concert Spirtuel around him in a circle (conductor and microphones inside) for a new SACD surround sound experience from Glossa, that calls on all the ceremonial pomp and flair which the French musicians have been showing themselves to be the masters of over the years in concert and on disc. And who better than the famous French countertenor Visse himself to be drawn into that circle as one of the 60 singers! Added in, for good measure, for this program of Florentine flamboyance from the Renaissance and Baroque are polyphonic arrangements of Gregorian plainchant Mass Propers by Franceso Corteccia, maestro di cappella in the Cathedral of Florence in Striggio's time.
American Record Guide, July / August 2012
These are very fine performances, recorded at the church of Notre Dame du Liban in Paris. A rich reverberation is heard; one can easily imagine this music echoing through the Duomo in Florence. The ARG index lists no other recordings of the Striggio mass, but some years ago Niquet and his ensemble recorded music by Benevoli (there spelled Benevolo), including the 'Laetatus Sum' and Magnificat heard on this recording together with a 'Dixit Dominus' and Azzolina Mass (Naxos 553636; Jan/Feb 1997).
Gramophone Magazine, June 2012
What increases the appeal of this programme is the accompanying selection of fine motets by Striggio's compatriot Orazio Benevoli's...and some settings of plainchants by Francesco Corteccia that mimic the improvised polyphony that was a common occurrence in festive Masses such as that represented here...this disc certainly merits my personal accolade.
Recording information: Notre Dame du Liban, Paris (08/2011).
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Works Details
Chant, Gregorian : Beata viscera , communion in mode 1 - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Medieval
Benevoli, Orazio : Laetatus sum - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Baroque
Benevoli, Orazio : Miserere - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Baroque
Corteccia, Francesco : Bonum est confiteri - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
Corteccia, Francesco : Gloria Patri - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
Striggio, Alessandro : Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Corteccia, Francesco : Alleluia - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
Striggio, Alessandro : Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Benevoli, Orazio : Magnificat - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
Striggio, Alessandro : Missa "Ecco si beato giorno", for 40 voices - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
- Form: Choral
Corteccia, Francesco : Tu puer propheta Altissimi - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
Striggio, Alessandro : Ecce beatam lucem - Conductor: Hervé Niquet
- Period Time: Renaissance
