Concerti Ecclesiastici

While many tend to think of early Baroque sacred music as large and grand, this wasn’t necessarily the case when it came to the music heard in smaller towns and courts. This concert explores the music heard in intimate settings, exploring the multitude of genres that flourished in the early Baroque in the process. This program is a musical snapshot of the expressive small-scale sacred music of the early Baroque. The program features music by Lodovico Viadana — from whose famous collection of sacred music the program’s title is taken — as well as music by Heinrich Schütz, who composed small-scale church music by necessity, many of his resources being subsumed by the Thirty Years’ War.