The Swedish Radio Choir sings Palestrina
Step into the meditative sound world of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, celebrating his 500th anniversary, presented here in a fusion with works by the contemporary and iconic composer Arvo Pärt, as the Swedish Radio Choir fills the Great Church with sonorous beauty under the direction of chief conductor Kaspars Putniņš.
This production is part of one or more concert series.
In this concert the movements of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli is intertwined with works by Arvo Pärt based on the arrangement below:
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1525–1594)
Missa Papae Marcelli
I. Kyrie
ARVO PÄRT (1935–)
Nunc Dimittis
II. Gloria
ARVO PÄRT
Magnificat
III. Credo
ARVO PÄRT
Dopo la vittoria
IV. Sanctus
V. Benedictus
ARVO PÄRT
The Woman with the Alabaster Box
VI. Agnus Dei
Get to Storkyrkan
In Old Town between Stockholm Castle and Stortorget stands Storkyrkan, at Trångsund 1. You can easily get here by bus no. 2, 57 or 76 – get off at the Slottsbacken stop – or the red or green line of the T-banan – get off at Gamla stan station.
Kaspars Putniņš on his years with the Swedish Radio Choir
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