Discover Roman polyphonic music of the 17th century. The splendours of sacred music in Rome dazzled the whole of Europe.
A specialist in the Italian Baroque and a great discoverer of scores, Argentine conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón invites us to take an exhilarating plunge into the riches of polyphonic music as practised in 17th-century Rome. From Allegri's famous Miserere, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel repertoire jealously guarded for centuries, to the poignantly chromatic motets of Alessandro Scarlatti, this concert also offers us the chance to discover a little-known mass by Giovanni Giorgi, a composer who was choirmaster at Saint-Jean-de-Latran before ending his career at the court of Lisbon.
