beauty farm - Missa Papae MarcelliMid 16th century: Catholic Church music is threatened by a pandemic. All too worldly, artificial things had crept into sacred chanting to such an extent that the famous Council of Trent even wanted to reduce singing in the mass to the monophonic Gregorian chant again. As the Fama tells us, Palestrina saved polyphonic church music from this crisis with his Missa Papae Marcelli. In a live recording, beauty farm sings this legendary work, which raises

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This Document CD has 24 of her first 32 recordings and

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Ware and Matthew Shipp

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he was undoubtedly one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century

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He rose to prominence first in Italy as a composer of opera seria but also wrote oratorios

The in uential director Krzysztof Warlikowski creates an enthralling diptych that has not existed in this form before

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