Miserere

Writer - Gregorio Allegri
First released - 2024
Original album - Nonetheless expanded edition
Producer - James Ford (?)
Subsequent albums - (none)
Other releases - none

"Love Is the Law," the final song on Nonetheless, includes at its conclusion an interpolation of an excerpt from this famed composition that straddles the late Renaissance and early baroque. The Pet Shop Boys decided to provide a more substantial interpretation of it on their subsequently released expanded edition of the album.

A deeply religious work—a setting of Psalm 51—its full title is Miserere mei, Deus, Latin for ‘Have mercy on me, O God’. Italian priest-composer Gregorio Allegri composed it circa 1638. It quickly became and remains his most frequently performed work.

It wil be extremely interesting to see how they approach this piece, which includes some astoundingly high vocal lines.

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