Discover Roman polyphonic music from the 17th century.

The splendours of sacred music in Rome dazzled the whole of Europe: played at all times and in all places in the holy city, religious works boasted an exceptional musical lavishness. Here is a stunning collection.

Argentine conductor Leonardo García-Alarcón – a specialist in the Italian Baroque with a great talent for unearthing new scores – invites us to take an intoxicating dive into the treasures 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 is also an opportunity 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.

“By competing in terms of ingenuity and multiple processes of spatialisation, 17th-century compositions gradually broke away from their religious constraints and turned them to their advantage.”

Philippe Ramin pour Bachtrack

Luigi Rossi (1597-1653)

Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, « Piangete occhi, piangete »

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Plange quasi virgo

Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)

Miserere

Alessandro Scarlatti

Ecce vidimus eum

Giovanni Giorgi (1719-1762)

Motets : In omneterram, Improperium, Dextera Domini, Ave Maria

Messe en Fa majeur : Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

PRESTIGE VIP CATEGORY: Best seats in house with complimentary glass of champagne and programme.

PRESTIGE CATEGORY: Excellent seats with complimentary glass of champagne and programme.

REDUCED RATE: applicable to under 26s, Chateau de Versailles Spectacles card holders and groups of more than 10 people (excluding special company offer).

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