Musica Transalpina invites you to join us for three distinct programs featuring composers who brought Italian musical influences across the Alps into the German-speaking countries in the 17th Century. We’re calling this series Canticum Domini in terra aliena: Latin sacred music from the German Counterreformation. Join us as we perform music written by Italians working in German-speaking lands — or by German composers writing in the Italian concertato style — for three distinct programs on April 14th, 15th, and 16th, each at noon. These are free concerts open to the public.
We shall explore the phenomenon of Musica Transalpina by delving deep into what it meant to be a musical mercenary working in the seventeenth century to establish a cosmopolitan and distinctively Roman idiom that reflected the pageantry & characteristic triumphalism of the Tridentine era.
The general themes of our programs are as follows:
Thursday April 14th: Mass & Vespers from the prince archbishopric of Salzburg — music by J. C. Kerll, Rosenmüller, and the earliest examples of sacred monody ever published by Conforti.
Friday April 15th: polychoral devotional music from Venice — music by Clinio, Vecchi, Schutz, and Praetorius.
Saturday April 16th: Easter Mass at the imperial chapel in Vienna, 1666 — Colossal Baroque sacred music by Bertali, Monteverdi, Gabrieli, and Rosenmüller for double chorus and period orchestra.
Parish Church of Ss. Peter and Paul
515 West Opp Street
Wilmington, CA 90744
