Stile Antico

Wednesday, 26 November 2025 at 5:30 pm

Italian Dynasties

Martin Randall Travel

St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Lavenham, United Kingdom

The great families and institutions of Renaissance Italy lavished their patronage on the cream of musical talent from all over Europe. Dukes of Ferrara and Mantua were significant patrons for Flemish musicians like de Wert and Josquin des Prez; the Vatican employed great singers like Josquin as well as Italians Allegri and Aneiro; and Spanish composers such as Victoria were drawn to Rome as the centre of the burgeoning Counter-Reformation. Home-grown talent also flourished in these cities, with Palestrina and Monteverdi becoming synonymous with music from their beloved Rome and Venice respectively. This concert takes a grand tour of these great 16th-century Italian centres of patronage: from Florence to Rome via courts in Ferrara, Manua and Venice.

Mantua
Giaches de Wert, Gaudete in Domino
Claudio Monteverdi, Ecco mormorar l’onde
Jacquet of Mantua, Dum Vastos Adriae

Ferrara
Luca Marenzio, Tribus miraculis
Leonora d’Este, O salutaris hostia
Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Quivi sospiri
Rafaella Aleotti, Angelus ad pastore ait

Venice
Claudio Monteverdi, Adoramus te, Christe
Andrea Gabrieli, Benedictus Dominus
Claudio Merulo, Salvum fac populum tuum

Florence
Anon., Venite a laudare
Maddelena Casulana, O notte, o ciel, o mar
Josquin des Prez, Inviolata, integra es

Rome
G.P. da Palestrina, Tu es Petrus
Tomas Luis de Victoria, Trahe me post te
G.P. da Palestrina, Surge, propera amica mea
Felice Anerio, Christus factus est
Gregorio Allegri, Christus Resurgens
G.P. da Palestrina, Laudate Dominum in tympanis a12

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