Felice Anerio
About
the composer
Felice Anerio was born in 1560 in Rome. He began his career in 1568 as a
choirboy at S. Maria Maggiore. He sang under Palestrina in the Cappella Giulia
(Rome, S. Peter) from 1575 to 1579. He composed madrigals, both secular and
sacred and music for the Liturgy. The great
achievement of his life was his appointment as official Papal composer, on 3rd
April 1594, on the death of Palestrina (Palestrina had held the post since
1565). Anerio held the post till he died in 1614.
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Date |
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Performers |
Three mixed
choirs (12 voice) |
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Length |
7.35
minutes |
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Particulars |
The Stabat Mater a 12 (for three choirs) passed for a long time as Palestrina's work. It is the first recording of this Stabat Mater. Anerio was on the list of Stabat Mater composers (not released on CD) for a long time. Now there is this beautiful performance by The Sixteen. The work is divided in two parts. From the
CD box: Felice Anerio displays a fluid mastery of
the Roman style of composition, and some of his surviving settings are shown
to advantage here, in particular his glorious twelve-part setting of Stabat
Mater, more ambitious and possibly more beautiful than those by Palestrina
and Lassus. |
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Textual
variations |
The
"Analecta"
version of the text is used. |
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CD |
Music
from the Sistine Chapel, COR16047 |
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About this CD |
I bought
it on the Internet in
March 2007. The
CD includes
several world premiere recordings. |
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Performers |
The Sixteen |
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Conductor |
Harry Christophers |
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Other works |
Felice
Anerio: Ave Regina caelorum, Regina caeli laetare, Magnificat secundi toni a
8. Giovanni Pierluigi
da Palestrina: Ascendit Deus, Ave Maria, Angelus Domini, Assumpta est Maria. |
| Added |
June 2007 |
E-mail: stabatmater@dds.nl