Caroline Gill compares the available recordings of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli and makes a personal recommendation.

Palestrina’s epoch-defining Mass has been the stuff of legends over the past five centuries. Fabrice Fitch assesses a range of approaches to its recorded performance How fitting that work on this ...

What’s the deal here? Palestrina is an amazing Renaissance composer and this recording is much welcome, but isn’t acapella early music a little high-brow for the 21 st century everything-is-crossover ...

COMMENTARY: On tour in the U.S., the Vatican choir revives Palestrina’s legacy with sacred music praised by popes and saints. Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, with a ...

Palestrina’s Mass, written to honor a Pope who reigned for only twenty-two days, is a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and one of the most seminal works in the history of music. Steven Fox’s ...

Missa Papae Marcelli Giovanni Palestrina, Composer Ensemble Officium Wilfried Rombach, Conductor Viri Galilaei Ensemble Officium Anonymous, Composer Wilfried Rombach, Conductor Omnes gentes Wilfried ...

Howard Goodall and Suzy Klein discuss Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina ...