Voces Suaves at the RheinVokal Festival

Giacomo Carissimi pioneered the genre of sacred music drama that became known as 'oratorio'. Jephte is his best-known work, based on the story in the Old Testament Book of Judges. Interestingly, Carissimi remains faithful to the story as told whereas Handel a century later provides a happy ending. The world-renowned Renaissance vocal group Voces Suaves, trained and formed at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, performs this masterpiece of 17th-century music recorded during the 2019 RheinVokal Festival at the spectacular church of St Severus, Boppard in Germany, which lies in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To open the concert, a harpsichord miniature by Carissimi's contemporary Luigi Rossi, performed by Jörg-Andreas Bötticher.

Luigi Rossi: Durezze e legature
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, harpsichord

Giacomo Carissimi: Jephte,
Voces Suaves
Jörg-Andreas Bötticher, conductor & organ