The Producer Speaks: Impressions from the Cozzolani Recording Booth
Over recent weeks I have been re-discovering the amazing music of Donna Chiara Margarita Cozzolani and the extraordinary talents of the ladies (and a few gentlemen) of Magnificat who brought it all to life. It seems hardly possible that the first of these recordings took place a decade ago, beginning in August 2000, marking one of Musica Omnia's very first projects (We began recording Jaap Schroeder and Penelope Crawford's Atlantis Ensemble the same year.) Having released two "liturgical" versions of a fairly hefty sampling of Cozzolani's music from both 1642 and the grander collection of 1650, we are now finally mining the remaining wealth of material that we captured and preserved all those years ago in order to realize our original goal of presenting all the surviving music by this wonderful and unique composer, who for me exemplifies the second generation of composers of the Italian Baroque. I can recall the atmosphere ...
