Developments in Catholic Music: EMS 7 May

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As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free: Martin Luther's Revolution season marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in Germany in 1517, Lucie Skeaping looks at music written for the Catholic church as a result of the reforms at the Council of Trent, with music by Palestrina and Giaches de Wert, and also music written by later catholic composers such as Jacobus Handl, Charpentier and Carissimi.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nyr1r

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I very much enjoyed the music, especially Carissimi’s cantata Jephthah. I thought it was a splendid work excellently performed. These works alone may not have led to St Matthew Passion but I imagine Bach would have been more than inspired enough to create great works, may be of different kind.