Mater Purissima

Perrone, Paolo; Losito, Valerio; Cussino, Simonpietro; Marian, Radu; Paolini, Dario; Ensemble Akathistos; Caravella, Roberto

This release is a selection of the music chosen for the celebration of the Holy Rosary in four Marian Sanctuaries in Rome during 2008, recorded live in San Gregorio dei Muratori, in the Basillica di Santa Maria Maggiore, in San Salvatore in Lauro and in SS. The idea behind the initiative was to reunite liturgy and prayer with the music originally composed for the celebration, bridging the gap between sacred music simply “played” in concerts and the deep liturgical and spiritual meaning it possesses. Today, sacred music is rarely part of liturgy, or at most plays a limited and marginal role; churches are used as “concert halls,” and even the musician approaching the world of sacred music, ignores or is unaware of its spiritual value. For this reason we have created a philological reconstruction of the ancient Marian Rosario, and have taken the occasion to finally correct the injustices suffered by religious music, especially its most ancient form. The celebration of the Rosario through music seemed to us to be a wonderful and unique occasion in which to reunite musical art and religiousness, revered in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, now forgotten and rarely heard.

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