Northern Sinfonia with Stephen Cleobury

The intense beauty of Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ – so pure it borders on the provocative – comes between Italian music that’s utterly different in colour and character: the stringent ‘Harmonic Fire’ of Vivaldi’s Opus 3; the bouncing energy of his Gloria ‘introduction’ Ostro picta, and then the thrusting charge of the Gloria itself. The Italian baroque at its most energetic and uplifting.

Stephen Cleobury: Conductor
Mhairi Lawson: Soprano
Anne Marie Gibbons: Mezzo soprano

Northern Sinfonia Chorus

Vivaldi
L’Estro Armonico: Concerto for Four Violins in E minor

Allegri
Miserere mei, Deus

Pachelbel
Canon

Gibbons
The Silver Swan

Vivaldi
Ostro Picta, Armata Spina

Vivaldi
Gloria

Photography: Mark Savage