An Italian Travel Diary
M-A Charpentier: Mass for Four Choirs, etc; plus works by Benevoli, Beretta, Cavalli, Cazzati, Giamberti and Merula
Ensemble Correspondances/Sébastian Daucé
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‘Go to Italy; that is the true source’ – so Charpentier advised following his own journey from Paris to Rome in the 1660s. This ‘travel diary’ brings together the sort of music he may have encountered en route and provides a narrative thread for a selection of ravishing, often revelatory, works.
Highlights include Maurizio Cazzati’s sumptuous eight-voice motet
Salve caput sacrosanctum; Cavalli’s 12-part Sonata in D minor, showcasing the ensemble’s crack instrumentalists, and Merula’s quasi-operatic psalm-setting
Italy
Rome
Lazio
Italian
Harmonia-mundi
Maurizio-cazzati
Cavalli-magnificat
Parisian
Beretta
Four-choirs
Francesco-beretta
Missa-mirabiles