Ensemble La Fontaine

Alex Potter, Ensemble La Fontaine – Fede e Amor (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:19:37 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ramée

This recording explores some of the lesser-known music from eighteenth-century Vienna that combines solo voice with virtuoso trombones. During the first half of that century, the city’s musical life experienced an unprecedented blossoming. The Habsburg Emperors aimed to turn Vienna into a truly magnificent capital for the Holy Roman Empire and used visual art, architecture, liturgy, court ceremony and, above all, music to help achieve this. The Habsburg rulers Leopold I (1658-1705), Joseph I 1705-1711) and Charles VI (1711-1740) took the “Holy” part of their title very seriously and paid for a huge amount of elaborate sacred music to be performed on a regular basis by court musicians, a major element of which was the performance of large-scale Oratorios in the Imperial Chapel.

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