Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
Choir of Westminster Abbey & Simon Preston
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| Total: 11 Songs |
Customer Reviews
Unbearably beautiful music
I bought this on vinyl when released in 1986, and later on CD. Good to see this here on iTunes. The Miserere is the best known of these peices, but do listen to the Mass also and you will be rewarded. Achingly beautiful from music from another era.
Biography
Formed: 1065 in London, England
Genre: Classical
Years Active: '90s
Westminster Abbey, the historic church associated more deeply than any other with the pageantry of English history, dates back nearly a thousand years to the time of King Edward the Confessor, the last of England's great pre-Norman monarchs. Edward's palace was located in the City of Westminster (which is now part of Greater London). Edward determined to re-endow and enlarge a Benedictine monastery located on Thorney Island nearby. The church he envisaged was consecrated December 28, 1065. However,...
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