Watch Palestrina, Allegri, Ramsey and Weelkes: Lamentation
- 1995
- 36 min
Timothy Brown and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge give a performance of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's setting of the 'Stabat Mater' hymn to the suffering of Mary during the crucifixion. This work is said to have been composed towards the end of Palestrina's life, in honour of Pope Gregory XIV.