Notes, June 1st, 1997
Steven Saunders (together with A-R Editions) has produced an exemplary edition of music from a repertory that he has spent years studying, and to good effect. These small-scale motets with continuo (one, Giovanni Valentini's O vos omnes, is for five voices) stem largely from a single time and place: the Hapsburg court of Ferdinand II at Graz in the decade after 1615 - an environment Saunders has thoroughly explored in Cross, Sword, and Lyre: Sacred Music at the Imperial Court of Ferdinand II of Habsburg (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), to which this edition now functions as a companion music...
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