Monteverdi:
Cantate Domino
Adoramus te Christe

Legrenzi:
Salve regina
Intret in conspectu tuo

Lotti:
Crucifixus (5 voices)

Colonna:
Victima paschali laudes

Steffani:
Qui diligit Mariam

Bernabei:
Tribulationes cordis mei

Harmonies of Devotion is both an exploration of the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and a celebration of the devotion to this sacred repertory displayed by English antiquarian collectors of the eighteenth century. Among the works recorded here for the first time are Giovanni Legrenzi’s six-voice masterpiece Intret in conspectu tuo, which survives thanks to a copy made in London by Handel, a five-voice Crucifixus by Legrenzi’s pupil Antonio

Lotti, sent to London’s newly formed Academy of Ancient Music, a grand Marian motet writ- ten for the Academy by Agostino Steffani, and music by Steffani’s teacher Ercole Bernabei, again

collected by members of London’s antiquarian music clubs. The recording reveals lines of influence between teachers and pupils, and traces the lineage of the dramatic seconda prattica motet back to its principal source and pioneer: Monteverdi.