Christmas in the Vatican
Description
John XXIII took steps at the start of his Papacy to greatly improve the training of the boys' voices in the Sistine Chapel choir. The recordings collected on this CD document the result of this reform and show the choir under the direction of conductor-composer Domenico Bartolucci at a peak in its performance. The choir's duties include attendance at Papal masses and thus focus on the performance of liturgical music. Accordingly, the works of Palestrina are central to the programme of this unique disc.
Personnel: Coro della Cappella Sistina, Cappella Musicale Pontifica, Domenico Bartolucci (conductor), The Vatican Boys' Choir of the Sistine Chapel, Orchestra da Camera di Roma, Quinzio Petrocchi (conductor)
Tracks
- Name
- PALESTRINA: Hodie Christus natus est
- MORALES: Pastores dicite
- J.S. BACH: In dulci jubilo
- PALESTRINA: Cantabo Domino
- Vo dilecti mei
- Improperium exspectavit
- Vulnerasti cor meum
- Páucitas diérum
- CORELLI: Concerto in G minor, op. 6, No. 8 (Christmas Concerto)
- PALESTRINA: Exaltabo te
- Dextera Domini
- Tota pulchra es
- MARENZIO: Innocentes pro Christo infantes
- ANON. (16th. Century): Sopra il fieno colcato
- Dio s'e fatto fanciullo
- ZIPOLI: Pastorale
- BARTOLUCCI: Christus natus est