Here is the meat of an email about this pieces that I just now (literally 2 minutes before seeing this just now at FR) sent to a freind of mine, who is an ameteur musicologist:
Davitt Moroney discusses the genesis of Striggio’s long-lost Mass, and how he discovered it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ls_9id5ba4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missa_sopra_Ecco_s%C3%AC_beato_giorno Loss and recovery: After Striggio’s exhausting 1567 European tour with his work, it disappeared for more than four centuries. While he left copies of it at several locations he visited – the court of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, the court of Albrecht V in Munich, the court of Charles IX of France – all copies had been lost. However, a copy of the mass was made in the early 17th century in France, presumably from the copy Striggio left in Paris for Charles IX. Because of several corruptions and copyist errors both on the manuscript and in the card catalogue, when the enormous document, which had been transferred to Louis XV in 1726, from the library of composer Sébastien de Brossard, and then passed to the Paris Bibliothèque nationale, the mass was attributed to an “Alessandro Strusco” and the “40 voices” had been amended to “4 voices” (presumably the copyist thought the “40” was in error, and removed the extra zero). It was only in the 21st century that the work was recovered and identified by Davitt Moroney. Its first performance in modern times was on 17 July 2007 at a Proms concert in Royal Albert Hall in London, where it was sung by the BBC Singers and Tallis Scholars, conducted by Moroney.
A commercial recording featuring voices and period instruments was released by the British ensemble I Fagiolini in March 2011:
I. Kyrie & Gloria http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc8NYimOizU
II. Credo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWL4awWcEw
III. Sanctus & Benedictus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtnpN3N3wDE
IV. Agnes Dei http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrjQIuhsknM
Robert Hollingworth, director of the new recording, discusses surround sound and other technical details of the recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOUPv3fc6G0
Robert Hollingworth discusses the piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUDWvB31lU
Robert Hollingworth’s advice to conductors regarding the piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR8fyloU8IQ
Thanks - can’t listen to Youtube at work, so pinging for home.
Thank you for posting the links to the youtube. I wasn’t finding any recording. It’s beautiful.
Thanks for the links...beautiful
Pinging Conservaliberty....your hubby will find this interesting
later, & thanks
That is some exquisite music. Thanks for sharing.