Cozzolani Concerti Sacri (1642): 18. Psalite, Superi

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Warren Stewart, artistic director

Catherine Webster & Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano
Meg Bragle & Deborah Rentz-Moore, alto
David Tayler, theorbo
Hanneke van Proosdij, organ

Psallite, superi is a text for the Assumption (August 15); its refrain frames a series of questions whose answers are taken from a standard Song of Songs verse used on the liturgy of that day in Cozzolani's Benedictine breviary. The form of this dialogue also derives from the cantilena motets pioneered in Alessandro Grandi's book of 1619. The scoring (two sopranos, two altos) points directly t...