MICHELANGELO FALVETTI (1642-1692): Il diluvio universale.

Description: This pictorially vivid spectacular from 1682, composed by the maestro di capella in Messina, was only recently rediscovered. Making great use of sackbuts for the terror of the Great Flood and Arab percussion instruments for eerie and other accents elsewhere, the starkness and brilliance of the word Italian-English texts. Mariana Flores (soprano), Evelyn Ramirez Muñoz (contralto), Fernando Guimarães (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (bass), Namur Chamber Choir, Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo García Alarcón.