The three Italian choral works on this album cast new light on pre-existing musical material. Corrado Margutti’s Missa Lorca fuses the words of Federico García Lorca with an evocation of Monteverdi’s polyphonic textures to create fascinating sounds, as the two movements from the Mass reveal. Pizzetti’s Messa di Requiem, the first of his great choral compositions, offers a wealth of expressive detail notably the use of Gregorian chant in music of huge range and richness. Lorenzo Donati’s Sicut cervus fittingly concludes this selection as it threads music from Palestrina into his piece illuminating the past with vivid new colours.

Dario Ribechi is an Italian choir conductor and grant recipient from De Sono amd Archimedes Foundation. A versatile and multi-instrumentalist musician, Ribechi has collaborated with acclaimed composers such as Arvo Pärt, Tõnu Kõrvits, Eric Whitacre, Eugene Birman and Carlo Boccadoro, as well as renowned conductors including Kristjan Järvi, Matthew Halls, and Simone Menezes. He has worked with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Ensemble K, Dubai Opera House, Chorus and Orchestra of Rome's Teatro dell’Opera, and Coro Filarmonico Ruggero Maghini. In 2018, he founded the Erato Choir, dedicating himself to the rediscovery and promotion of the philharmonic and a cappella repertoires.

Erato Choir, founded in 2018 by Dario Ribechi and Massimo Lombardi, is a distinguished ensemble of professional singers based in Turin. The choir's primary objective is to explore the choral repertoire from the beginning of polyphony to our day. Noteworthy accomplishments include performing the opening concert of the 2021 De Sono season, recording the world première of Carlo Boccadoro’s Tre Madrigali based on Primo Levi's texts, performing Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria at Milan's Cathedral, and presenting Johannes Brahms’s op.17 at the Dubai Opera House alongside Ensemble K, under the baton of Simone Menezes.