Pizzetti Messa di Requiem | Margutti | Donati

Erato Choir, Dario Ribechi

The three Italian choral works on this album shed new light on pre-existing musical material. Corrado Margutti's Missa Lorca combines the words of Federico Garcia Lorca with an allusion to Monteverdi's polyphonic textures to create fascinating sounds, as the two movements from the mass demonstrate.

Pizzetti's Messa di Requiem, the first of his great choral compositions, offers a wealth of expressive detail, particularly the use of Gregorian chant in music of enormous range and richness.

Lorenzo Donati's Sicut Cervus fittingly concludes this selection as it threads music by Palestrina into his piece, illuminating the past with vivid new colors.

Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968), Corrado Margutti (b. 1974) , Lorenzo Donati (b. 1972)