"A lot depends on what you mean by religious music or sacred music.     I think you need to make a distinction between settings of religious texts and music intended to be performed in church as part of the liturgy.  I am…"

"Hello Konstantin, that sounds like a fascinating paper. As to the Concert Spirituels, I think the only guitarist employed there ever, in over 60 years, was Vidal in 1776... so that rather demonstrates how UNusual it was for guitars to be used for…"

"Welcome to the EG+V network, Gary!"

"It seems to me wholly inappropriate to include baroque guitar in the music of Bach or Zelenka - Rameau perhaps if it was secular. As I understand it the Concert Spirituel was formed to perform instrumental music and vocal music with Latin texts at…"

"I should add - the voice is Maria Cristina Kiehr's, and the vihuela is in the hands of (EG member) Ariel Abramovich."