Palestrina - Ave Maria a 4 voci arranged for string quartet

Johannes Brahms was one of the first to combine jobs as a composer-performer and teacher with that of a music-historical scholar. As an extra layer in our research before recording his complete works for string quartet, we took a dive into all the kinds of other music that fascinated him throughout his lifetime. Listen to our Brahms album now: rubicon.lnk.to...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was among the first composers to regain prominence during the canonization of renaissance music in the 18th and 19th century. His fluent polyphonic style was universally adopted by European music theoreticians around one century after his death. As a consequence Palestrina's music was recognized with great clarity by wider 19th century audiences. As you can hear in his setting of Ave Maria for four voices, the counterpoint never loses its spiritual motivation.
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