On the 5 June 2026, Girton Choir will release their sixth CD of music devoted to the work of Renaissance composer Marc'Antonio Ingegneri. It can be ordered and streamed here: Marc’antonio Ingegneri, Vol. 6 - the Teacher and His Disciples.
Each of the Choir's previous five volumes of music by Marc'Antonio Ingegneri has reached the Classical charts. This is an extraordinary achievement for a young choir offering music by a largely unknown composer, and is testament to the quality of the recordings.
Ingegneri is known as the teacher of Claudio Monteverdi, who is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history. Yet, Dr Gareth Wilson, Director of the Girton College Chapel Choir, believes that Ingegneri’s work deserves more recognition:
“In this sixth album the Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, continues its pioneering exploration of the music of the Italian Renaissance master, Marc'Antonio Ingegneri (c.1535/36-92) with a programme exploring in msuci Christ's relationship with his disciples - twelve motets, symbolising the twelve disciples, framing the five-voice Missa Kyrie Secundi Toni, all in their first recordings. These further discoveries confirm Ingegneri's position as one of the masters of his age, writing music as expressive and moving as his better-known contemporaries Palestrina and Lassus - and just as individual.”
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