The news that Decca will release a recording of Striggio’s colossal Missa Ecco sì beato giorno on 7 March promises an oxymoronic treat for some of us.
The news that Decca will release a recording of Striggio’s colossal Missa Ecco sì beato giorno on 7 March promises an oxymoronic treat for some of us. There we were, on the stage of the Albert Hall in the 2007 Proms, the new scores in hand, giving the world première of just this piece. A recording was repeatedly discussed at the time, but in the end it was decided that the cost of such an endeavour was too high for the quality of the music. It was thought it would flop.
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Now Robert Hollingworth has bitten the bullet and, to celebrate 25 years of his group I Fagiolini, has not only made the first recording of the mass, but also recorded Tallis’s Spem in alium alongside it, in a new way with instruments as well as voices, all in 5.1
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