Agnus Dei II (excerpt), from the Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Recorded live in concert by Move Records, 24 November, 2019
This work appears on the ACC’s Keys to Heaven CD and will be performed as part of a program celebrating Palestrina’s 500th birthday.
Read more about Palestrina 500
BUY TICKETS to the concert, Sat 17 May (Dunkeld) and Sun 25 May (Melbourne)
WATCH PALESTRINA ON ACCess The Australian Chamber Choir’s Excellent Streaming Service brings you Palestrina on demand.
Images shown are of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome (the favourite church of the late Pope Francis, and now his resting place), where Palestrina sang from the age of eleven as a choir boy and was director of the choir from 1551 to ’66.