Cantus Coln: Vespro Della Beata Vergine

Cantus Cölln Concerto Palatino Conducted by Konrad Junghänel

Vespro della beata Vergine - by Virgilio Massocchi (1597-1646) Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674) Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)

Rome in the eighteenth century: this reconstruction of Marian Vespers – five psalms, a Magnificat and their brief antiphons – is drawn from the works of the maestro di cappella of St Peter’s, Virgilio Mazzocchi, and his close colleagues Carissimi and Frescobaldi. Anything but austere, this music is a worthy successor to that of the great Palestrina.

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