Last weekend Magnificat completed our 18th season with three performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers in three beautiful venues for three large and appreciate audiences. We still have performances at the Berkeley Festival and a CD release party at Yoshi’s in June, but it is a good time to reflect on what has been Magnificat’s most successful and regarding season yet. Above all, we thank the musicians (full list below) who devoted so much love, devotion and talent to each of Magnificat’s projects this season.
Magnificat's recording Vespro della Beata Vergine included a third CD called "Beyond the Notes" - Salmi Bizarri: Cozzolani and the music of Milanese convents. Patterned on the talks that precede each Magnificat concert, on this CD I discussed aspects of Cozzolani's life and music with musical examples.
This introduction to the life and music of Cozzolani is now available in streaming audio here:
[audio http://cozzolani.com/audio/SalmiBizarriPodcast.mp3]
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In 2000, Magnificat and Musica Omnia began recording the complete works of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani. The Cozzolani Project is a continuation and expansion of that venture that will eventually make all of Cozzolani's surviving compositions available as streaming audio and digital download.
Magnificat's two CDs on the Musica Omnia label, Vespro della Beata Vergine and Messa Paschale included about half of Cozzolani's surviving works. As a result, four psalms, another setting of the Magnificat, and eight motets remain to be released in two double CD box sets.
The recordings will be released both digitally and on physical CDs, with a complete recording Read More...