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)
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
Marta Wróblewska, soprano
Marcin Liwien, alto
Piotr Galek, tenor
Andrzej Marusiak, tenor
Michal Dembinski, bass
Andrzej Zawisza, bass
Le Poème Harmonique
Arte dei Suonatori
Arte dei Suonatori
DIR.: VINCENT DUMESTRE
recorded: April 12, 2017, St Catherine's Church, Cracow
[Misteria Paschalia 2017]
[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.
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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