‘O choir of the celestial realms, brighten my heart with flowers’. During the 1670s and 1680s Alessandro Poglietti (d.1683), the imperial organist in Vienna, sent (or hand delivered) about 15 sacred works to the Prince-Bishop of Moravia (part of today’s Czech Republic), Karl Liechtenstein-Castelcorno (1623–1695). Among them are several elaborate and virtuosic arrangements of solo monody by the Roman composer Bonifazio Graziani (c.1604–1664). In these arrangements Poglietti transformed works for a single voice and continuo into virtuoso concertato motets for 5–10 voices, 6-7 string instruments and basso continuo. These world-premiere recordings will not only give audiences a chance to hear these ear-tickling masterpieces, but also to compare them to the original monody versions.