Although this concerto was written in 1932, I love how contemporary it sounds, especially the opening, with its Steve Reich-like interlocking piano parts. The old saying goes: In Poulenc there is ...

COMMENTARY: On tour in the U.S., the Vatican choir revives Palestrina’s legacy with sacred music praised by popes and saints. Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, with a ...

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 prominent ...

Perhaps the most striking musical feature is the generous music that Palestrina lays out for the Hebrew letters beginning each Lamentation text, which often showcases the lower sonorities of these ...

Beauty Farm have already several recordings to their name, though nothing, I think, as late as Palestrina. Here, the all male, one-voice-to-a-part vocal group tackle an uncontested warhorse of ...

What’s the deal here? Palestrina is an amazing Renaissance composer and this recording is much welcome, but isn’t acapella early music a little high-brow for the 21 st century everything-is-crossover ...

Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers, Giovanni da Palestrina and Carlo Gesualdo. Show more Peter Phillips ...

As the Catholic Church recovered from the onslaught of Reformers, Palestrina, back at St Peter's, turned to the writings of the prophet Isaiah for a song of hope and praise. Isaiah was also that ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...