Voces Suaves & Concerto De’ Cavalieri by Charpentier, M., Stradella, Carissimi, P 19 nov 2023, Alates (2023/2023), Dirigent Marcello Di Lisa, Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin, Germany

Around the middle of the 17th century, Giacomo Carissimi, who lived and worked in Rome, founded a new, widely broadcast genre with his biblical oratorios. His church music as a whole was groundbreaking and inspired an entire generation of students, including Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who studied with Carissimi in the 1660s and took numerous ideas back to Paris with him. A direct contemporary of Charpentier was Alessandro Stradella, who developed a multifaceted, extremely productive musical activity in several Italian music centers.