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Queen's College Chapel
The Queen's College
High Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 4AW
England
Programme
Claudio Monteverdi – Cantate Domino, SV 293
Giovanni Legrenzi – Salve regina
Giovanni Legrenzi – Intret in conspectu tuo
Claudio Monteverdi – Adoramus Te
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus (5 voices)
Giovanni Paolo Colonna – Victimæ Paschali laudes
Agostino Steffani – Qui diligit Mariam
~ Interval ~
Claudio Monteverdi – Domine ne in furore tuo
Giovanni Legrenzi – Quam amarum est Maria
Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus a 8 voci
Claudio Monteverdi – Christe, adoramus te
Giovanni Legrenzi – Converte nos Deus
Ercole Bernabei – Tribulationes cordis mei
Giovanni Legrenzi – Ave regina cælorum
Performers
Owen Rees – Conductor
Contrapunctus
Programme Note
CD LAUNCH CONCERT
Harmonies of Devotion is both an exploration of the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and a celebration of the devotion to this sacred repertory displayed by English antiquarian collectors of the eighteenth century. Among the works performed are Giovanni Legrenzi’s six-voice masterpiece Intret in conspectu tuo, which survives thanks to a copy made in London by Handel, a five-voice Crucifixus by Legrenzi’s pupil Antonio Lotti, sent to London’s newly formed Academy of Ancient Music, a grand Marian motet written for the Academy by Agostino Steffani, and music by Steffani’s teacher Ercole Bernabei, again collected by members of London’s antiquarian music clubs. The programme reveals lines of influence between teachers and pupils, and traces the lineage of the dramatic seconda prattica motet back to its principal source and pioneer: Monteverdi.
