Garland of sacred motets and cantatas for voice and continuous bass
This evening, about an hour into the night Mr. passed away. Francesco Severi, soprano from Perugia and left as heir the Most Holy Madonna of Constantinople... Mr. singers went collegially to the Church of the Blessed Virgin of Constantinople where the Requiem mass was sung for the late Francesco Severi who died on Christmas Day. (historical-critical memories of Palestrina's life and works).
The Marian title of Our Lady of Constantinople given to a sacred building is generally linked to the arrival in the West of venerated images of the Virgin brought by monks fleeing from Byzantium. The seventeenth-century baroque was full of iconography and music centered on the figure of the Blessed Virgin. The idea of this program involves authors from the Baroque period who have a connection with Venice, a crossroads of cultures, artistic link between East and West and the figure of Mary.
It is a meditation centered on the figure of Mary, woman and mother. Woman that men adore, untainted from the holy, the sweetest of the blessed. The one who suffers and accepts the stinging thorns that life reserves for her, whose womb bore the one who saved us. “In his glorious return you remain, or mother, by my side, save me from eternal abandonment.”
Dolci accenti ensemble
Daniele Cernuto viola da gamba and voice
Michele Fracasso vocals
Calogero Sportato theorbo, archlute
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