As part of our free Christmas-week DG streams to slippedisc.com subscribers, we can offer exclusive access to the choir of the Sistine Chapel, singing masterpieces of polyphony.
Starts tomorrow (Monday).
Not to be missed.
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The contrast between the pure, polyphonic singers and the background of Michelangelo’s naked hell (picture) seems to be quite appropriate for the church in these days.
Not Hell, I think, but the Last Judgment.
Yes, but it is the part of the Judgment where hell is depicted, just behind the singers.