Palestrina – Laudate Pueri
Memory of happier times, instead of the Palestrina that I should have been singing in Ushaw chapel this evening
The full 1610 Monteverdi
In 1610 Monteverdi published a collection of music for Pope Paul V titled Sanctissimae Virgini Missa senis vocubis ad Ecclesiarum Choros ac Vespere pluribus decantandae – “A Mass of the Blessed Virgin for six voices suitable for church choirs and Vespers music for more voices” and it so happened that I heard all of the […]