Cavalli: Missa 1660 Galilei Consort & Benjamin Chénier

• Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676):
• 1 Fanfare 01:44
• 2 Toccata 02:59
• 3 Kyrie (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 05:28
• 4 Gloria (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 14:34
• 5 O Bone Jesu (Sacra Corona, 1656) 05:00
• 6 Credo (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 13:23
• 7 Canzona (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 04:07
• 8 Sanctus (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 03:36
• 9 Elevatio (Anonyme) 05:20
• 10 Agnus Dei (Musiche Sacre, 1656) 04:22
• 11 Plaudite, Cantate (Sacra Corona, 1656) 03:50
• 12 Fanfare II 01:09
• 13 Laudate Jerusalem Dominum (Vesperi, 1675) 03:29
• Total Runtime 01:09:01

Info for Cavalli: Missa 1660

Mazarin managed to sign the Treaty of Paris which validates the future Peace of the Pyrenees, and therefore the marriage of Louis XIV with the Infanta of Spain in 1660. In the context of these celebrations, the French ambassador in Venice commissions a mass from Cavalli, the greatest composer of his time. He thus composed this sumptuous Missa, performed in January 1660 in the Basilica of San Giovanni e Paulo and brought together the best voices and most famous musicians around viols, violins, cornets and trumpets in a spatialisation in the Venetian manner. In this recording, Benjamin Chénier takes on this chef d'oeuvre which celebrates France and Louis XIV with brilliant soloists and a strategy of spatialisation in the Royal Chapel which recreates the splendid sound of 1660.

Galilei Consort
Benjamin Chénier, violin, direction

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