![ecco la musica – Venezia 1631 – La Festa della Salute (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2023/01/02/ov75zch1x88pa_600.md.jpg)
ecco la musica – Venezia 1631 – La Festa della Salute (2021) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]
In the early summer of 1630, Venice was struck by the plague in a devastating way: it raged for 18 months and killed almost 50,000 people, more than a third of the population at the time! Doge Nicol`o Cantarini vowed to build a large church for the deliverance from the plague, and even though he was unable to experience it himself, this vow was carried out. With the Santa Maria della Salute, one of the most magnificent churches in the city was built.
![Peter Gortner, Carsten Wiebusch, Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe – Chant des jeunes (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/02/20/m4s13s4vyfd7b_600.md.jpg)
Peter Gortner, Carsten Wiebusch, Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe – Chant des jeunes (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
Sacred music for girls’ or women’s choir and organ can be found almost exclusively in France in the late Romantic and early modern period. The girls’ choir of the singing school Cantus Juvenus Karlsruhe, conducted by Peter Gortner, presents this repertoire, which is influenced by French Catholicism, with wonderful lightness and beauty of sound. In addition to Fauré’s Messe basse and Poulenc’s intense litanies à la Vierge Noire, there will be a.o. Motets by Debussy, Boulanger and Langlais. Organ works by Messiaen, Alain and Dupré round off the CD program perfectly.
![Capella Spirensis, L’Arpa Festante, Markus Melchiori – Psalms for Salzburg Cathedral (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]](https://imghd.xyz/images/2022/04/03/jcveu0kpylljb_600.md.jpg)
Capella Spirensis, L’Arpa Festante, Markus Melchiori – Psalms for Salzburg Cathedral (2022) [FLAC 24bit, 48 kHz]
The composer Andreas Hofer (1628/29-1684) is probably hardly known even by music connoisseurs! Yet he was Cathedral and Court Kapellmeister in Salzburg at a time when the prince-archbishopric was considered one of the most important centers of Western music. Hofer was in charge of all the music of the prince-archbishopric, both in the great Baroque cathedral and at court, and he brought the most accomplished musicians to Salzburg: among them none other than Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber as Vice-Kapellmeister and Georg Muffat as cathedral organist!