I propose listening to a fragment of the "Miserere in Palestrina", for soloists, choir, two cellos, double bass and organ by Paisiello (1794).
An eighteenth-century sacred piece of great importance, especially for the search for an aesthetic that is not necessarily "innovative," but above all particular and different from its contemporaries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6YcnsDQ5M
Today, what happens is that there is a mass of "neo-Baroque" composers (Sardella, Moretto, etc.) who
propose to listeners an ancient style that is somewhat shortsighted (I have heard better fugues on this forum).
Paisiello, on the other hand, already two centuries ago was giving lessons on how to propose an archaic style by updating it without losing the essence of the source.
This is a sign of how today we are in a regressive phase
