Yes. Candlemas, at least the Missa Papae Marcelli. TBD if the choir does the Lumen ad revelationem gentium for the blessing. More to come after that I hope.

I only copy the best of ideas, sir. :)

Hi, I would suggest these juwels:

- Missa+motet Viri Galilaei (à 6v)
- Missa+Motet Hodie Christus natus est (à 8v)
- Alma redemptoris à 4
- Valde honorandus à 4
...

Hello from the UK. Bumping this thread, to make two requests please.
1. more recommendations for Palestrina motets/hymns to suit a volunteer choir. We have started off with the alternate verses of Pange Lingua found in our copies of Music for Holy Week (Sir Richard Terry). From the same book we have Pueri Hebraorum, which even Sir Richard admits might be spurious, but our singers are coping well with it, and we have also sung the three part Jesu rex admirabilis. If anyone could recommend a next step I would be very grateful, eg some of the Baby's First Palestrina mentioned above.
We managed Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus last year after much rehearsal, and Sicut Cervus is another long-range possibility,
2. How do people cope with a wide range of ability in their choirs? We have about 25 members (when they all turn up) ranging from enthusiastic but can't read music through to an ex Kingsman and an ex chorister from Magdalen (the other place), who exercise great patience and are a huge help to the choir. One possibility is to have a small group of the more able ones to tackle more ambitious stuff, but I don't want to alienate the others.
Any ideas gratefully received!

We sing his Sicut cervus, Hodie Christus natus est, Pueri heabreorum and, more modest, his Miserere mei.

Hi all! You could try as well "Salvator mundi" (SATB) https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Salvator_mundi_(Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina)
and "Ego sum panis vivus" (SATB)
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/c/cf/Palestrina_Ego_sum_panis_vivus_4vv.pdf
or "Loquebantur variis linguis" (SATB)
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Loquebantur_(Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina)

A few more "easier" motets of Palestrina:

SATB:
Christus factus est
O Domine Jesu Christe
Super flumina Babylonis
Ave Maria a4 (1564)

SABar:
Pars mea / Bonus est Dominus
Tua jesu dilectio

Most of Palestrina's better-known motets (at least for SATB) have already been mentioned; others include:
Ad te levavi oculos meos
Canite tuba
Dies sanctificatus
Exsultate Deo
Nos autem gloriari
O magnum mysterium
O rex gloriae
Stabat Mater
Surge illuminare
Surge propera (and other motets from the Song of Songs)

Other better-known masses:
Missa Brevis
Missa Ave regina caelorum
Missa Assumpta est Maria
Missa Je suis déshéritée ("Sine nomine")
Missa Regina caeli (a4)

Many of these have been recorded by The Sixteen under Harry Christophers.

What about Dulcis Jesu... or perhaps the Matins and Lauds hymns which use texts from the same 43 verse? poem.

Peter Phillips:
Reconsidering Palestrina (1994)

The celebrations for the Palestrina anniversary, so far as I have seen them, have tended to cater for those who are keen to hear his
music for the first time, rather than to make the most of this rare opportunity to explore unfamiliar sides of his output. If there have been more performances of the Missa Papae Marcelli there have been as few as ever of about a hundred of his other Masses, let alone his madrigals. Nor do I have the impression that important biographies have been written or new areas of scholarship opened up. In particular I do not feel that the reappraisal Palestrina so urgently needs has been properly undertaken. One can only hope that the general interest which the activities of this year may have generated will in the future encourage publishers and record producers to take risks, that the achievement of his anniversary will have been simply to have raised his profile. Perhaps by the next anniversary, in 2025, people will be competing to record his complete madrigals.