This program presents the whole range of emotions of Virgin Mary’s life reflected n the Italian music of the XVII century. Sentiments of joy and pain, deeply embedded in Her existence, inspired some of the most important pieces of art through the ages. Composers of all times created sacred music based on texts praising the Blessed Mary and describing her burden. But in Italian early baroque these motives found a special match, because words started being treated using a whole new sphere of dissonances and consonances, amplifying the intensity of emotions, which in this programme are crowned by the emblematic Giovanni Felice Sances’ piece Stabat Mater.
