In May 2007 the British magazine GIG/International Arts Manager wrote about Cappella Augustana as one of the most prominent Italian early music ensembles.
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Recently the ensemble under Matteo Messori played for the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini in the first Italian stage performance of the Händel oratorio La Bellezza ravveduta staged by the renowned producer Denis Krief.
The public as well as the national and international critics (such as the magazine OperaNow) praised the interpretation of the ensemble.
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Cappella Augustana is now performing in concert tournèe the Musikalisches Opfer by Johann Sebastian Bach with the gastronomical and patisserie ”counterpoint” of the renowned Italian chef Cesare Marretti.
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The ensemble proceeds with the first complete recording of Heinrich Schütz works for the Dutch music label Brilliant Classics .
The first 14 CDs containing the Symphoniae sacrae I & II, the popular Historia der Geburt Christi, the Italian Madrigals, the wonderful Cantiones sacrae, the first collection of the Kleine geistliche Concerte, the Passions after St. Matthew, St. Luke and St. John, the Resurrection History and Seven Words, have already been published and have proved very successful among the public and the specialized international critics.
The next box with 5 CDs will contain Musikalische Exequien, the second part of the Kleine geistliche Concerte and the Geistliche Chormusik.

In 2009, on the occasion of the first centenary of Giuseppe Martucci’s death, Cappella Augustana and Matteo Messori will perform – for the first time in history – the never published romantic oratory of big importance, Samuel (1881), written by the great romantic Italian composer. The oratory requires soloists, double choir, full orchestra and organ.

The ensemble, under the direction of Matteo Messori, is recording the complete works by the Thuringian composer Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) for the Dutch label Brilliant Classics (appr. 30 CDs).
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