Sacred treasures of Rome

Palestrina & his contemporaries – a Golden Age of polyphony in Rome

The London Oratory Schola Cantorum—whose singers have an average age in this recording of just fourteen, across all four voice parts—celebrates the quincentenary of Palestrina’s birth with a selection of his motets, together with works by some of the other composers active in sixteenth-century Rome.

CDA68435 71 minutes 9 seconds

‘The choir has a solid presence and a secure core, with a treble sound that is both clear and expressive (try Soriano’s Regina caeli). As in the Venetian disc, the recital’s middle section, com ...
‘In the booklet, Charles Cole writes: 'The Schola is at its heart and purpose a liturgical choir, and we present this recording as an insight into the liturgical life of the London Oratory, where this ...
‘The spacious recording acoustic of the London Notre Dame church lends numinosity to the singing and director Charles Cole’s note stresses that the choir’s purpose is primarily liturgical … the l ...