The almost unbelievable legend of how 14-year-old Mozart came to copy down Allegri’s Miserere, note for note, after hearing it just once. Gregorio Allegri’s sublime Miserere Mei, Deus, a nine-voice ...

Allegri’s heavenly ‘Miserere’ is the stuff of legends. Well, one particular legend, to be precise... Here’s everything you need to know about Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere Mei including what the lyrics ...

The name the Miserere, refers to the Psalm to which the music is set, Psalm 51. Gregorio Allegri composed this work sometime around 1638 for the annual celebration of the matins during Holy Week ...

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Donald Macleod and guest Sarah Willis explore some of the greatest “one-hit wonders” in classical music - Johann Pachelbel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Dukas, Gregorio Allegri, Henryk Górecki ...

Under the direction of Nigel Short conducting via video link, Tenebrae sings a concert for Easter, including Gregorio Allegri's stunning Miserere, at a time when the world has never needed the ...

For a couple of centuries, the only place where you could hear the Misere, that extraordinarily beautiful choral work written in the 1630s by Gregorio Allegri, was in the famed Sistine Chapel in ...