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Advent & Christmas at the Sistine Chapel - About the Choir (Trailer)
1 Gregorian Chant - Gaudete in Domino semper  
2 Perotin - Beata viscera Mariae Virginis  
3 Gregorian Chant/Guillaume Dufay - Conditor alme siderum  
4 Josquin Desprez - Missus est Gabriel  
5 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Canite tuba in Sion  
6 Giovanni Maria Nanino - Hodie nobis caelorum Rex  
7 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Hodie Christus natus est  
8 Jean Mouton - Queramus cum pastoribus  
9 Tomas Luis de Victoria - Quem vidistis pastores  
10 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis  
11 Gregori Allegri - Nasceris, alme puer  
12 Gregorian Chant/Luca Marenzio - Christe, Redemptor omnium  
13 Tomas Luis de Victoria - O Magnum mysterium  
14 Clemens non Papa - Magi veniunt ab oriente  
15 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Reges Tharsis et insulae  
16 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Diffusa est gratia  
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The "marvelous" (New York Times) Sistine Chapel Choir releases its first holiday album, VENI DOMINE: ADVENT & CHRISTMAS AT THE SISTINE CHAPEL. The release features Gregorian chant and works from composers ranging from Dufay to Allegri, including several pieces by Palestrina and a piece featuring mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, Pérotin's "Beata viscera Mariae Virginis."   

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  • Sistine Chapel Choir's unique sound is perfectly suited to the repertoire on 'O Crux Benedicta' / CD Hotlist
    Posted At: May 6, 2019 12:00 AM

    On my third time listening to this album, I finally realized what it was that struck me about it so strangely: its opening track is a piece of Gregorian chant on which the choir sounds absolutely eerie. The voices seem to be floating like mist out of a dark cave, which is fitting given the deep solemnity of the liturgical setting for which it's intended: Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. The remainde...
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  • Sistine Chapel Choir - O Crux Benedicta is WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: April 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    This recording made in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel by its resident choir is devoted to music for Ash Wednesday and Holy Week. Presented in liturgical order, every piece in this compilation of chant and sublime settings by Palestrina, Lassus, Victoria, and other Renaissance masters was written for and is still performed in papal liturgies celebrated in the chapel. "The exciting partnership between the Si...
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  • New Zealand Herald picks top 10 classical albums of the year
    Posted At: December 18, 2017 12:00 AM

    Every year around this time New Zealand Herald, classics reviewer - William Dart selects his top 10 CDs of the year. It's a timely guide for anyone searching for a gift. Included in this year's picks are; Veni Domine (Deutsche Grammophon) - The Sistine Chapel Choir, under Massimo Palombella, celebrates Christmas with a Renaissance serenity, recorded under Michelangelo's lofty vi...
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  • Sistine Chapel Choir - Palestrina / ArtsHub review
    Posted At: January 31, 2017 12:00 AM

    The second recording to come from Deutsche Grammophon's association with the oldest choral institution in the world presents one of the great late-Renaissance jewels from the Vatican's treasury, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli.  This masterpiece dedicated to Pope Marcellus II who only reined for three weeks in 1555 was composed to honour one of the resolutions of the Council of Trent that the...
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  • Sistine Chapel Choir joins Westminster Abbey Choir at Ecumenical Vespers / Vatican Radio
    Posted At: January 25, 2017 12:00 AM

    LISTEN TO THE Vatican Radio SEGMENT TRANSCRIPT - Pope Francis on Wednesday afternoon presides at Vespers in the Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls for the closing of the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. On that occasion, the Sistine Chapel choir will be joined by the men and boys of the Westminster Abbey choir, renowned as one of the finest choral music groups of its kind. Ahead of ...
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  • Sistine Chapel Choir - Palestrina / WFMT 'Featured Release'
    Posted At: November 2, 2016 12:00 AM

    This album is only the second recording to be made under studio conditions in the Sistine Chapel, following Deutsche Grammophon's pioneering release of Cantate Domino in September 2015. It comprises the world premiere recording of the 1567 first edition of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli together with a selection of motets. Sistine Chapel Choir: Palestrina on Deutsche Grammophon is the WFMT: Chicag...
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  • Sistine Chapel Choir - Cantate Domino / WFMT: New Release of the Week
    Posted At: September 27, 2015 12:00 AM

    Deutsche Grammophon presents, by kind permission of the Vatican, the first studio album ever to be recorded in the Sistine Chapel. "Cantate Domino" opens the door to some of the world's most beautiful choral music, as well as into one of the most treasured sacred locations on earth. The album features music written for Popes across the centuries, including previously unpublished works and editions by...
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