Cal Performances Video Program Notes
Alessandro Striggio’s Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno
for 40 and 60 voices
written ca. 1566
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(2008, Quicktime, TRT 6:00)
One of the highlights of the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition is the American premiere of Alessandro Striggio’s 16th-century long-lost Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno for 40 and 60 voices, the largest known contrapuntal choral work in Western music. UC Berkeley musicologist and renowned harpsichordist Davitt Moroney discovered the work at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France after a two decade search.
In the latest installment of Cal Performances’ web series, Video Program Notes, Professor Moroney talks about the search and the music that London’s Guardian called “a masterpiece…not just the choral event of the year but possibly of the decade.”
Producer: Christina Kellogg
Camera/Editor: Monica Lam
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At the Boston Early Music Festival I learned that a CD had been made (very recently?) How can one get it?
When will there be a CD or DVD of this work?