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RIAS Kammerchor at Stift Stams | Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik 2013

RIAS Kammerchor: Inés Villanueva, Viola Wiemker (soprano, solo gregorianic), Aurélie Franck, Margret Giglinger, Katharina Hohlfeld, Mi-Young Kim, Sarah Krispin, Sabine Nürnberger, Andrea Oberparleiter, Stephanie Petitlaurent, Christina Roterberg (soprano), Karola Hausburg (alto, solo gregorianic), Ulrike Bartsch, Andrea Effmert, Waltraud Heinrich, Barbara Höfling, Karin Neubauer, Claudia Türpe, Marie-Luise Wilke (alto), Volker Arndt, Joachim Buhrmann (tenor, solo „Benedictus") Wolfgang Ebling, Jörg Genslein, Christian Mücke, Volker Nietzke, Kai Roterberg, Masahi Tsuji (tenor), Janusz Gregorowicz, Werner Matusch, Paul Mayr, Rudolf Preckwinkel, Andrew Redmond, Johannes Schendel, Klaus Thiem, Jonathan d. Paz Zaens (bass)

Risto Joost (conductor)
Martin Tebs (light design)
Folkert Uhde (dramaturgy)

When, at the Council of Trent, the secular influence on sacred music was criticised, Palestrina showed with the splendid six-part mass in memory of Pope Marcellus II a new approach to combine elaborate polyphony with the rigid rules of liturgy. Palestrina's tremendous influence can be seen up until today, which will be demonstrated by one of the world's leading vocal ensembles, the RIAS Kammerchor, alternating the different parts of the mass with the most radiant sacred music of the 20th century.