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Magnificat Choir & Consort
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MAGNIFICAT CHOIR & CONSORT
The Magnificat Choir & Consort is a professional choral and instrumental ensemble focussing on the study and performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century repertoire, with a particular predilection for sacred Italian and German compositions of the Baroque era.
The MAGNIFICAT CHOIR & CONSORT carries out an intense and continuing research, study, transcription and preparation of works, frequently neglected, in order to provide concerts and high-quality musical performances.
The MAGNIFICAT CHOIR & CONSORT is composed by young professional choristers and instrumentalists, united by their unique love for early music and animated by the desire to make known to a wider audience a repertoire of musical compositions from the late Renaissance sacred polyphony to the Baroque “oratorio concertato”.
The use of historically informed performance practice on period instruments is due to a precise philological and interpretative choice, aimed at restoring the feelings and "affetti" of the Baroque era for an increasingly demanding audience.
The group was born as a mixed polyphonic choir, but performs in different ensembles: from the solo "consort" to the complete choir, making use of its versatility in order to adapt itself to several kinds of works.
The MAGNIFICAT CHOIR & CONSORT performed on numerous occasions, with some of the most famous works in the Baroque sacred repertoire including Bach’s “Magnificat” and “Christmas Oratorio”, Handel’s “Messiah”, Charpentier’s “Te Deum” and Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beata Vergine".