Live in Rome: Celebrating Palestrina's 400th Anniversary

Live in Rome
The Tallis Scholars
Celebrating Palestrina’s 400th Anniversary

COLOUR: PAL, ALL REGIONS
DUAL LAYER: DVD 9 - A slight pause may be experienced during layer change
VIDEO: 4:3
SUBTITLES: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano
STEREO SOUND: LPCM - Audio Bonus in Dolby Digital
Cat. No.: GIMDP 903

Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli – Stabat mater – Alma redemptoris mater – Surge,
illuminaire – Magnificat Primi toni – Nunc dimittis

Allegri
Miserere Soprano soloist: Deborah Roberts

Peter Phillips directs The Tallis Scholars
in the historic concert celebrating
Palestrina’s 400th Anniversary, filmed
in the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria
Maggiore where the composer sang as
a choirboy and later became maestro di cappella.

Choose between 2 presentations.

Illustrated Performance
Priceless artworks in the
Basilica illustrate the sung texts.
Optional captions name the artworks and artists. 81’ 34”

Pure Performance
100% Tallis Scholars with optional sub-titles. 81’ 34”

PLUS
What the singers see
Peter Phillips directs Palestrina’s
Nunc Dimittis. 4’ 33”

The Tallis Scholars sing Palestrina.
Audio Bonus.
Missa Brevis Recorded in Merton College Chapel, Oxford. 21’ 29”
Missa Assumpta est Maria
Recorded in Salle Church, Norfolk. 29’ 51”

Filmed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on February 2nd and 3rd 1994, by kind permission of Cardinal Ugo Poletti and Monsignor D J David Lewis, Vicar Capitular.

Produced by Steve C Smith and Peter Bromley
for Gimell Records. Directed by Andrew Quick.