Here's a novelty, a LIVE concert that actually was!
Radio 3, are you listening? Live means live, not pre-recorded in front of a, possibly, living audience. Weasel words butter no parsnips.
Broadcast on Monday on ORF O1 and available for 4 weeks - the music starts ~8:20 in.
Here's the programme page (via the PDF from this link; translation by DeepL - thanks MickyD)
"Missa Papae Marcelli
OR THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF WORDS
We are in 16th century Trent: the council there is planning to ban complicated, polyphonic church music. However, Palestrina's 'Missa Papae Marcelli' succeeds in averting this plan with its beauty and simplicity, so the legend goes. Anyone who now has the opportunity to listen to this work in Melk's collegiate church will be convinced of the sublimity of this rarely performed mass, whose music radiates purity and at the same time is technically perfectly balanced in its polyphony. Johanna Doderer builds a bridge to this with the world premiere of a work commissioned by the Baroque Days, which is inspired by the sounds of the night. Interspersed between the individual parts of the mass are virtuoso diminutions - instrumental arrangements of Palestrina's compositions - which, in harmony with the vocal parts, complete the evening."
Radio 3, are you listening? Live means live, not pre-recorded in front of a, possibly, living audience. Weasel words butter no parsnips.
Broadcast on Monday on ORF O1 and available for 4 weeks - the music starts ~8:20 in.
Here's the programme page (via the PDF from this link; translation by DeepL - thanks MickyD)
"Missa Papae Marcelli
OR THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF WORDS
We are in 16th century Trent: the council there is planning to ban complicated, polyphonic church music. However, Palestrina's 'Missa Papae Marcelli' succeeds in averting this plan with its beauty and simplicity, so the legend goes. Anyone who now has the opportunity to listen to this work in Melk's collegiate church will be convinced of the sublimity of this rarely performed mass, whose music radiates purity and at the same time is technically perfectly balanced in its polyphony. Johanna Doderer builds a bridge to this with the world premiere of a work commissioned by the Baroque Days, which is inspired by the sounds of the night. Interspersed between the individual parts of the mass are virtuoso diminutions - instrumental arrangements of Palestrina's compositions - which, in harmony with the vocal parts, complete the evening."
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