August 26, 2025
For an afternoon of sacred music from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, I present four complete masses for your edification:
0:00:00 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli, c. 1562; Sistine Chapel Choir, Massimo Palombella, recorded 2016
0:31:10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Missa (solemnis) in C minor, K.139 “Waisenhausmesse,” 1768; Choir of King's College, recorded 1997
1:12:00 The Electric Prunes, Mass in F Minor, 1968
1:39:00 Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe, 1990; Elora Festival Singers, Elora Festival Orchestra, Noel Edison, recorded 2004