Concert Program/ Concerto Soave & Maria Christina Kiehr

From the official Program Notes: One of the most admired and individual voices in Baroque music today, Argentinian soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr makes a welcome return to the Lufthansa Festival with her Swiss-based ensemble Concerto Soave in repertoire they have made their own: music for soprano and string ensemble from seventeenth-century Italy. In this concert, they conjure up the convulsive conflicts of biblical times in Domenico Mazzocchi’s dramatic motets depicting the Passage of the Red Sea and Judith’s bloody slaying of Holofernes, and in instrumental battle music by Andrea Falconieri. More peaceful concerns are evoked in music for Holy Week by Frescobaldi, in hymns to Jesus by Legrenzi and Orazio Tarditi, and in Monteverdi’s delectably tuneful psalm-setting Confitebor tibi Domine.