This story reminded me of 1994, when an album called "Chant" took over the radio waves. That CD/album featured the monks of the Benedictine abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos; this one features composer Allessandro Striggio and English group I Fagiolini:
(Reuters) – A sumptuous first recording of a long-lost 450-year-old Italian Renaissance mass written for 40 different vocal parts has soared onto British pop charts a week after its release.The recording by British vocal group I Fagiolini of the little-known Alessandro Striggio's 1566 mass for 40 voices — most masses are written for four — made its debut at number 68 on the pop charts, above Bon Jovi, George Harrison and Eminem.
It was number two on the classical charts, just behind Dutch violinist waltz master Andre Rieu.
"We really worked hard so that there could be a properly magnificent and extravagant sound world for the piece to revel in," I Fagiolini's conductor and founder Richard Hollingworth, 44, who thinks the mass has a "mesmeric" quality, told Reuters in a telephone interview on Sunday.
More here. And here. And here is a YouTube video featuring more:
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