Chiesa di Sant'Alessandro in Zebedia / at 12:00 PM
Cathedrals
Seventeenth-century composers commonly borrowed from secular music to create sacred music for use in various church ceremonies. Apart from expediency, this may have been a way of getting parishioners more involved. In this mass, Frescobaldi did so in masterly fashion. His eight-voice counterpoint continues to amaze us.
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Messa sopra l’aria della Monica
Christina Boner, Carmit Natan, sopranos
Jan Thomer, Enrico Torre, controtenors
Florian Cramer, Dan Dunkelblum, tenors
Tobias Wicky, Davide Benetti, basses
Maria Ferré Perez, theorbo
Soma Salat-Zakariás, violone
Gilberto Scordari, organ
Michele Vannelli, harpsichord and conductor
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