
Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg 2026 Review: Mozart’s ‘Coronation Mass’
(Photo Credit: Claudia Höhne) To be fair, the artistic boundaries of sacred music have been giving the church a headache since the Renaissance. One only has to recall Josquin Desprez and his peers, who cheekily built entire masses around secular tunes — sometimes even seductive ones — to understand why the clergy were constantly reaching for their smelling salts. By {…}