Last week’s instalment was a fine example of composer’s ego run riot. In this week’s, the composer almost disappears. This might seem an odd thing to say about Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (the ...

Choirs from the U.S. and abroad joined series presenting sacred masterworks by Palestrina in their intended setting — the Holy Mass. The series commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

Peter Phillips celebrates the wonder of Renaissance choral music by exploring the lives and works of two very contrasting composers, Giovanni da Palestrina and Carlo Gesualdo. Show more Peter Phillips ...

The consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo Pärt This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of ...

Although this concerto was written in 1932, I love how contemporary it sounds, especially the opening, with its Steve Reich-like interlocking piano parts. The old saying goes: In Poulenc there is ...

Image above: A page from a book of music by Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, part of the Burns Library collection. A trio of events hosted by the Boston College Music Department ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. After all the early music scholarship in recent decades, it must seem that the music by a composer as prominent ...

Westminster Cathedral Choir under its latest choirmaster, Martin Baker, goes from strength to strength. This is a thrilling recording of Palestrina's music for the Christmas season, centring not just ...

Specially recorded by the BBC Singers (the BBC's own full-time professional choir, and one of the world's great vocal ensembles) conducted by their Conductor Laureate Stephen Cleobury, the timeline ...

This beautiful wooden box houses the new Michael Gordon piece, Timber, scored for six percussionists and six two-by-fours. The news may bring us stories of bankrupt symphony orchestras, floundering ...