Jan Dismas Zelenka - Litaniae Lauretanae ’Salus Infirmorum’ - ZWV 152

Orchestra: Tafelmusik Choir: Kammerchor Stuttgart Soloists: Nancy Argenta (S), Michael Chance (A), Christoph Prégardien (T), Gordon Jones (B). (From KS: Andrea Egeler (S), Martin van der Zeyst (A), Markus Brutscher (T), Michael Volle (B)) Conductor: Frieder Bernius. 1. Kyrie eleison 0:00; 2. Pater de coelis (Aria, S) 4:48; 3. Mater divinae gratiae 9:48; 4. Virgo prudentissima I 12:58; 5. Virgo prudentissima II (Aria, SATB solisti) 13:14; 6. Salus infirmorum 15:16; 7. Regina Angelorum 19:07; 8. Agnus Dei I 22:21; 18. Agnus Dei II (come like Kyrie) 22:55. A Marian litany written as a dedication to the Electress Maria Josepha when she recovered from a serious illness in 1744. The sub-title ’Salus Infirmorum’ best translates as ’Welfare of the Sick’. Suitably, the piece begins and ends with a sublime and uplifting Kyrie and Agnus Dei and is filled in between with joyous arias and coros proclaiming the titles and attributes of Mary, Queen of Heaven. It is the secon