Schola Cantorum: The Glories of Italy, April 13 in Boston

For this season's final concert, Schola Cantorum presents Palestrina's "Missa Salvum me fac"(1567) as well as motets & madrigals by Monteverdi & Cavalli. Scored for five voices, this Palestrina mass is filled with luminous writing & the suave vocal lines that characterize his mature works.

Contrasting with Palestrina are several Monteverdi madrigals & Cavalli's 4-part Marian antiphon "Salve Regina". Monteverdi motets & Randall Thompson's settings of the Odes Of Horace fill out the program.