Maria Cristina Kiehr, Concerto Soave - Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti Libro Primo, Op.5 (1995)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:34 | 285 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: L'Empreinte Digitale | Catalog: ED 13048
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:10:34 | 285 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: L'Empreinte Digitale | Catalog: ED 13048
This is the only recording of sacred music by the extraordinary 17th-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. The Latin works in her collection Sacri Affetti Musicali were entirely suitable for church performance–something Strozzi herself, as a woman outside a convent, was forbidden to do. Most likely she performed these pieces as "spiritual recreation" at meetings of the "Academy of the Unisons" founded by her father, a well-known poet.