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Italian composer (1605-1672)
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To the max: supersize polyphony from Armonico Consort for its 20th birthday
[…] Missa Salisburgensis (1682) is one of a group of his large-scale polychoral works which were inspired by the grand setting of Salzburg Cathedral and was probably written for the commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the Archbishopric of Salzburg. The masses by Striggio and Biber are comparatively recent discoveries to the musical world, both emerging within the last 50 years. The Biber mass, which first came to light in the 1870s, was attributed to Orazio Benevoli until the 1970s and the Striggio was first performed in modern times as recently as 2007. Both masses use the Renaissance tradition of creating choirs mixing voices and instruments, whereas Tallis' motet seems to have been written for purely choral performance. Armonico Consort recorded their Supersize Polyphony programme in 2019, see my record review. Armonico Consort's 20th birthday celebration tour of Striggio, Biber and Tallis, takes place in Warwick (25 September), Malvern (1 […]
2019-01-25 09:25:32
Super-size masses from the Armonico Consort.
Armonico Consort (photo Chris Hall) Biber's large-scale Missa Bruxellensis survives in a single copy now housed in the Royal Library in Belgium (hence the work's name). It is anonymous, but has more recently been attributed to Biber (his previous large-scale mass the Missa Salisburgensis was long mis-attributed to another composer, Benevoli). Biber writes on a large scale, two choirs and an instrumental ensemble making as many as 23 parts and this might be music written for Salzburg (where Biber was the Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop), but much of it is Venetian in inspiration. We don't know for what occasion the Missa Bruxellensis was written, but commentators suggest the 1701 celebrations for the foundation of the Order of St Ruperti, an order of military knights hence the sometimes martial elements in the work.Christopher Monks and the Armonico Consort are taking on the challenge of this large scale work and performing it with […]
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