Girton College Choir’s latest album based on the compositions of Marc’Antonio Ingegneri is now available to pre-order. 'Marc’Antonio Ingegneri Volume Four: Missa Gustate et Videte and Motets for Holy Week and Easter' will be released on Friday 15 March 2024.
The album marks the fourth annual release by Girton College Choir of recordings bringing the work of the renowned sixteenth-century composer to life. The record features contributions from Historic Brass ensemble, Western Wyndes, led by Girton Musician-in-Residence Jeremy West, and organ scholars, Felix Elliot, Emily Nott, and Gabriel Kennedy.
The Choir’s first volume, released in 2020, reached the Top 10 in the global Classical Charts and was nominated for an International Classical Music Award.
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, Director of Girton College Choir, Dr Gareth Wilson, believes that Ingegneri’s work deserves more recognition. Dr Wilson shared:
“Marc’Antonio Ingegneri is famous for having taught Claudio Monteverdi, probably the most celebrated composer of the early seventeenth century, but his own music is incredible and deserves to be better known. It’s also known that he was Director of Music at Cremona Cathedral whose bishop was a leading light in promoting liturgical reform at the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century. Ingegneri was at the forefront of the implementing of these reforms and may therefore be more important to the history of music than has yet been recognised.”
The Choir recorded the new album following a tour in Italy in 2023, where members performed Ingegneri’s compositions in Venice and Mantova, as well as Cremona Cathedral. The album’s cover artwork depicts Giovanni Antonio Pordenone’s enormous 12x10 metre fresco The Crucifixion, which hangs in the cathedral.
On Sunday 10 March at 15:30, Girton College welcomes the Cambridge University Brass Ensemble for a recital, followed by an in-conversation event with members of the Choir and Dr Gareth Wilson discussing Ingegneri’s incredible, but widely forgotten, music and the experience of leading this pioneering recording.
- Pre-order the album on Amazon, Presto Music.
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