"Lost" song from the Dark Ages? Middle Ages?

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

Didn't I see a headline a while back that a discovered chorale had been found from the years gone by and had been recorded?
(So much has happend the last two weeks it slipped my mind until tonight...).

I have been unable to find it doing a search. Lost comes up with the TV show and Dark/Middle Ages.. waaay too many hits and nothing on an 'old song' being discovered.

Thanks.

[RKP5637]

1. Was it this you were thinking of?

http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/12th-century-music-manuscript.html

[DJ13]

2. "Lost" 450-year-old mass soars on British charts

March 14, 2011

LONDON (Reuters) - A sumptuous first recording of a long-lost 450-year-old Italian Renaissance mass written for 40 different vocal parts has soared onto British pop charts a week after its release.

The recording by British vocal group I Fagiolini of the little-known Alessandro Striggio's 1566 mass for 40 voices -- most masses are written for four -- made its debut at number 68 on the pop charts, above Bon Jovi, George Harrison and Eminem.

It was number two on the classical charts, just behind Dutch violinist waltz master Andre Rieu.

"We really worked hard so that there could be a properly magnificent and extravagant sound world for the piece to revel in," I Fagiolini's conductor and founder Robert Hollingworth, 44, who thinks the mass has a "mesmeric" quality, told Reuters in a telephone interview Sunday.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/sns-rt-entertainment-us-mustre72d4dn-20110314,0,1061202.story

[RKP5637]

3. Incredible!!! n/t

[DURHAM D]

4. Hope the link works...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUDWvB31lU

[DJ13]

5. It works

Thanks, I wondered what it sounded like.

Veeeery soothing.

[Ian David]

7. It must be really old. It's in black and white. n/t

[Warpy]

8. Even though the comments section was less than thrilled

Striggio's Mass is much less mournful than most of the work of his contemporary, Tallis. It's interesting that the two men might have met.

What needs to be remembered about this stuff is that it wasn't just played on holy days in the cathedral, it was the official music for all sorts of court functions. They'd have sung it for coronations, baptisms, and the like.

I'll be looking for this one. It will be a great companion to "The Glory of Gabrielli," recorded back in the early 70s in the Cathedral San Marcos in order to duplicate the acoustics. If you love early music and don't have that one, I strongly suggest you check it out. I wore out 3 vinyl copies before I got the CD.

[rzemanfl]

6. It's not on iTunes yet. n/t

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

9. THANKS EVERYON!E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My memory may be going.. but I know WHO to ask! :)

[mackerel]

10. Brilliant!