Fourth of five programmes recreating the 17th-century
Roman tradition of performing oratorios on the Fridays of Lent. Carissimi was associated with one of the leading Roman oratories, that dedicated to the Most Holy Crucifix.
Carissimi Judicium Salomonis
GABRIELI CONSORT AND PLAYERS directed by PAUL MCCREESH
A Lenten motet by Carissimi's French pupil
Marc-Antoine Charpentier Magdalena lugens
CONCERTO VOCALE: records