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 programme of Florentine flamboyance from
the Renaissance and Baroque - which Niquet will be continuing to tour
in 2012 - are polyphonic arrangements of Gregorian plainchant Mass
Propers by Franceso Corteccia, maestro di cappella in the Cathedral of Florence in Striggio’s time. (GLOSSA)
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