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The chamber concerto was a popular genre with German and French Baroque composers. However, Italian composers, who concentrated on opera, sacred and secular music for voice, appear to have ignored it - with the exception of Vivaldi. Our modern image of the "Red Priest" is primarily that of a secular composer, yet much of his work was intended for performance in church. The importance of sacred music for solo voice in the oeuvre of Vivaldi emerges with a bold statistic: of his fifty or so extant sacred vocal works, thirty are for solo voice. This disc featuring soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and the English ensemble Florilegium pairs three popular chamber concertos with the Laudate Pueri and the motet Nulla in Mundo.