Classical Music In Concert: April 2019

Griet De Geyter, soprano (I)
Isabel Schicketanz, soprano (II)
Alex Potter, alto (I)
David Erler, alto (II)
Thomas Hobbs (Evangelist), tenor
Valerio Contaldo, tenor (I)
Benedict Hymas, tenor (II)
Stephan MacLeod (Jesus), bass (I)
Sebastian Noack, bass (II)

Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands Bach Society

DIR.: JOS VAN VELDHOVEN

recorded: March 30, 2018, Grote Kerk, Naarden

period instruments
lossless (flac)
source: NPO (digital TV)
recorded with harddisc recorder

text and English translation included (pdf)

Nikolaus DECIUS (c1485-1541) (attr)

(01) O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig, chorale [01'35"]
[audience, organ]

Johann Sebastian BACH

St Matthew Passion

(02) Part 1 [1.10'09"]

(03) Part 2a [55'20"]

(04) Part 2b [39'51"]

Jacobus HANDL-GALLUS (1550-1591)

(05) Ecce quomodo moritur justus a 4, motet [03'27"]

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Nikolaus Decius

O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig

St Matthew Passion score

Jacobus Handl-Gallus

Ecce quomodo moritur justus score

Netherlands Bach Society

Jos van Veldhoven

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Workupload (new link, 170324)

Saturday 6 April 2019

Draghi: Il Terremoto - Vincent Dumestre

Antonio DRAGHI

(1634/35 - 1700)

Il Terremoto

rapresentatione sacra (1682)

[1.06'23"]

Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano (Maddalena)
Léa Trommenschlager, soprano (Beata Vergine)
Anna Zawisza, soprano (Lume di Fede)
Helena Poczykowska, contralto (Lume di Scienza)
Dominique Visse, alto (Un Scriba)
Jeffrey Thompson, tenor (San Giovanni)
Victor Sicard, baritone (Centurione)
Emmanuel Vistorky, bass-baritone (Un Fariseo)

choir:
Marta Wróblewska, soprano
Marcin Liwien, alto
Piotr Galek, tenor
Andrzej Marusiak, tenor
Michal Dembinski, bass
Andrzej Zawisza, bass

Le Poème Harmonique
Arte dei Suonatori

DIR.: VINCENT DUMESTRE

recorded: April 12, 2017, St Catherine's Church, Cracow
[Misteria Paschalia 2017]

period instruments

lossless (flac)

source: Mezzo TV

recorded with digital recorder

Antonio Draghi was born in 1634 in Rimini, in the north-east of Italy. He began his career as a singer and librettist, before becoming a composer of operas and sacred dramas himself (more than 120 operas and more than forty oratorios). He moved to the Habsburg Imperial Court in Vienna, Austria, where he remained until the end of his days in 1700 as the Kapellmeister of the court.
This sacred drama is ranked among the sepolcri in Draghi's oeuvre. Every year a sepolcro was performed during Holy Week in Vienna, usually on Good Friday. They were intended to make the spectators meditate on the sacrifice of the Saviour. However, Draghi does not write for the faithful of a parish, but for the courtiers of the imperial family, eager for spectacle and novelty. This is why he decides to focus on the episode of the Passion where Jesus gives up the ghost, because at this precise moment, the text says: "The earth trembled, the rocks cracked, the tombs opened". It is precisely this "earthquake" (terremoto) that Draghi chose to exploit in his oratorio.

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