Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Palestrina is one of the towering figures of late Renaissance church music whose polyphonic compositions remain actively performed in the Choral repertoire. He composed more than 250 motets. This one,...

Missa Aeterna Christi Munera for four unaccompanied mixed voices by Giovanni Palestrina. Adapted from the Matins Hymn for the Common of Apostles, it has edited and arranged for modern use by Henry Was...

Edited by Henry Washington.

This widely performed Renaissance motet is now available in an SSA edition. Transposed up a fourth from the original key of F major, the beauty of Palestrina's polyphonic writing is maintained while m...

A surging choral work with distinct punctuated vocal lines, often with a leading tenor part.

This famous text is set to richly textured music filled with graceful melodic shapes.

A rousing celebration of Christ's ascension to Heaven featuring fantastic runs of notes shared between the voices.

Fresh, crisp and full of life, this work is the perfect setting for the jubilant words recounting the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.

Grounded and powerful, this work rises and falls with tuneful motifs shared between upper and lower voices.

This work by Palestrina is both deeply reflective and notable for its warm mellifluous texture that ponders on series of long, held notes.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

Motet for Four Mixed Voices, a cappella.

for trumpet, trumpet (or horn), trombone (or horn) and trombone (or tuba)

Immergiti nel mondo della musica rinascimentale con questa edizione di spartiti di "Vestiva i colli" di Palestrina, arrangiata per fagotto e clavicembalo in sol minore in tempo 4/4. L’arrangiamento co...

Alma Redemptoris Mater, arranged for SAB voices with optional divisi, is a thoughtful adaptation of Palestrina's timeless motet dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This arrangement preserves the ethereal be...

Frauenchor (SSMezA) - lateinisch

A ricercare is defined as an elaborate contrapuntal instrumental composition in a fugal or canonic style. This particular selection fits that description exactly. The musical lines flow from part to p...

A ricercare is defined as an elaborate contrapuntal instrumental composition in a fugal or canonic style. This particular selection fits that description exactly. The musical lines flow from part to p...