Magnificat, Warren Stewart, artistic director, performs motets by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. First Congregational Church, $38 premier section/$32 all other seats
Recognized during her lifetime as one of the finest composers in Italy, Cozzolani spent her adult life within the four walls of the musically famous convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan. Contemporary accounts describe the huge crowds that filled the exterior church of the convent to hear the angelic voices of nuns singing Cozzolani’s passionate and ecstatic music. This concert, marking the release of Magnificat’s recordings of her complete works, will feature Catherine Webster and Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano; Meg Bragle, Jennifer Lane and Elizabeth Anker, alto; David Tayler, theorbo and Hanneke van Proosdij, organ.
Click here to listen to Magnificat sing Cozzolani’s motet “Quid, miseri, quid faciamus?”
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Magnificat will also perform in the Festival Finale: Vespers in Venice from Monteverdi to Vivaldi.
Magnificat is an ensemble of voices and instruments under the artistic direction of Warren Stewart that specializes in music of the 17th century. Since 1992 Magnificat has presented an annual series of concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area that have explored the rich and varied repertoire of Early Baroque music, with programs ranging from [...]
