BENEVOLI Missae Angelus Domini. Dum complerentur
Orazio Benevoli: Missa Angelus Domini & Missa Dum Complerentur I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth CORO COR16219 This is surely peak I Fagiolini? Having enjoyed all of their large-scale recording projects so far - Striggio, Viadana, Monteverdi - this third and final instalment of Benevoli’s ‘Colossal Baroque’ multi-choir masses is quite superb. So, a quick recap if you're new to this: I Fagiolini turn forty this year and following a suggestion from musicologist Hugh Keyte, their director Robert Hollingworth has been editing multi-choir masses by Orazio Benevoli (mid 17th-century, Roman, director of the Capella Giulia in St Peters) as a three-album anniversary project. The two masses on this third and final Benevoli album are for Easter and Pentecost. The Easter mass, Missa Angelus Domini , seems to have been based on a motet which is now lost so I Fagiolini open with an engaging Easter drama instead by the Venetian composer, Alessandro Grandi. Plorabo die ac nocte - it's fo...
