The conductor of Choral Arts Northwest, Robert Bode, asked the composer to write a work based on a text about The Blessed Virgin Mary. The final poem in Petrarchs most famous work, Il Canzoniere, was chosen, because it is a prayer to t...Loe edasi...
This Italian Christmas carol dates from 1732 and the lilting melody by Alfonso Liguori is associated with the zampogna, a large-format Italian bagpipe. The text is œFrom Starry Skies Descending, as it is translated from the Italian title...Loe edasi...
The Dixit Dominus RV 595 shares a key and some further characteristics with the better-known setting of the same psalm, RV 594, but differs from it markedly: first, in being scored for an undivided ensemble (i.e., not “in due cori”): second, in belon...Loe edasi...
