London Oratory Schola Cantorum, Charles Cole: Sacred Treasures of Rome (Palestrina & His Contemporaries – A Golden Age of Polyphony in Rome) CD

Introducing the fourth album in the London Oratory Schola Cantorum’s ‘Sacred Treasures’ series on Hyperion. Also featuring music by other Renaissance composers in Rome: Allegri, the Anerios, Animuccia, Giovannelli, Marenzio, Nanino & Soriano. Uniquely, the average age of this choir is just 14, giving boys aged 7 to 18 the opportunity of an outstanding choral education within the state-education system.

Tracklist:
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)
Dum complerentur
1. Dum complerentur
2. Dum ergo essent
3. Super flumina Babylonis

Canite tuba
4. Canite tuba
5. Rorate caeli
6. O crux ave, spes unica – Giovanni Animuccia (c. 1520-1571)
7. Magnificat octavi toni – Luca Marenzio (1553/4-1599)
8. Adoramus te Christe – Giovanni Maria Nanino (1543/4-1607)
9. Regina caeli laetare – Francesco Soriano (1548/9-1621)
10. Adoramus te Domine Jesu Christe – Felice Anerio (c. 1560-1614)
11. O Maria gloriosa – Giovanni Francesco Anerio (c. 1567-1630)
12. Iubilate Deo – Ruggiero Giovannelli (c. 1560-1625)
13. Christus resurgens ex mortuis – Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)
Sicut cervus desiderat
14. Sicut cervus
15. Sitivit anima mea
16. Exsultate Deo
17. Peccantem me quotidie
18. Tu es Petrus (Part 1 of Tu es Petrus a 6)