Featuring music composed and published during the German composer's visit to Venice in 1629. The 1630 plague outbreak in Northern Italy devastated Venice: one third of the population succumbed to disease. With obvious parallels to the present day, we explore expressions of faith set to music by Schütz and his Venetian contemporaries Monteverdi, Grandi, and Cifra.

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