The ‘Storia Della Musica Italiana’ of which this recording is a part was a lavishly presented set of 40 LPs, in four leather volumes each containing 10 discs presented together with a sumptuous booklet in a cardboard slipcase. The publication was compiled by Cesare Valabrega for RCA Italiana.
This performance of the Miserere by the Choir of St. Michael, München is oddly not recorded in their own church, but in an Abbey church some 25km north-west of Munich. Of early recordings, it is a superior performance “without abbellimenti”.
This performance of the Miserere by the Choir of St. Michael, München is oddly not recorded in their own church, but in an Abbey church some 25km north-west of Munich. Of early recordings, it is a superior performance “without abbellimenti”. There are two flavours of this reissue with different album covers – potentially from different years – however no date for the second version (with a patterned cover) can be located.
A transcription of a concert by the Martindale Sidwell Choir and the Jaye Consort of Viols from 1973 in support of the Fenton House appeal. Miserere mei by Allegri, behold thou hast made my days by Gibbons, Byrd – Ne irascaris, Domine – civitas sancti tui and The seven last words by Heinrich Schutz plus an extra track by the St Clement Danes Chorale of the Malcolm Sargent arrangement of ‘de virgin Mary had a baby boy’. [Although technically a re-release, this entry has been placed at the correct position in the timeline of the Discography]