To mark Palestrina’s half-millennium, Edward Breen chats with members of Stile Antico, an ensemble championing his works which itself is celebrating its 20th anniversary ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as ...
One of the most prolific composers of the late 16th century, Palestrina wrote 104 settings of the Mass, more than 250 motets, Magnificats, other sacred music, and some secular madrigals ...
The greatest composer of Renaissance Spain, his reputation extended throughout Europe in his day. Victoria sang as a choirboy at Ávila Cathedral. When his voice broke he was sent to Rome, where he may ...