About the composer
Pietro Allori was born in 1925 in Gonnesa, a small village on the isle of Sardinia, Italy.
He entered the clergy in 1951 and became choir master and canon of the cathedral in the
nearby town of Iglesias, where he remained the rest of his life until his death in 1985.
From early age he devoted himself to the study of music and this was the only reason that
he left the island for some time, in order to study at the conservatories in Florence and
Milan.
In his compositions Allori stays close to the Gregorian chant. He was strongly influenced by his homeland, especially the folk music. Sardinia is one of the places where the village people keep up a tradition of a kind of Passion plays, in which very old melodies are used to recite liturgical texts, see Anonymus (Sardinia).
| Date | ca. 1984 |
| Performers | Male choir (TTB) |
| Length | 3.37 minutes |
| Particulars | A polyphonic/plain chant-like interpretation of four stanzas. |
| Textual variations | Only the stanzas 1, 9, 16 and 20 are sung. |
| CD | Antes Concerto BM-CD 951036: Pietro Allori, Sacred Polyphonic Works |
| About this CD | This disc is devoted to the sacred works of Allori, most
notably "The seven last words of our Saviour from the cross", and a selection
from "One hundred sacred chants". Recorded in the Church of St.Judes on the Hill, London, August 1995 I bought this CD in a record shop in the Netherlands in 1998 |
| Choir | Pro Cantione Antiqua |
| Conductor | Mark Brown |
| Other works | Le Sette Parole di Nostro Signore Gésù Cristo in Croce Ave verum corpus Ave Maria Ave Regina coelorum Regina coeli Ubi caritas Respice in me O vos omnes Christus factus est Ego sum Pastor bonus Parce Domine Jesu Redemptor omnium Tota pulchra es Maria In monte Oliveti Ecce adventit Crux fidelis Venite gentes |
| Added | 1998 - (ALO 01) |
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