Alessandro Scarlatti - St John Passion
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Label: Ricercar
Cat No: RIC378
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 24th March 2017
Contents
Works
Passio secundum Johannem (St John Passion)Responsori per la Settimana Santa
Artists
Giuseppina BridelliChoeur de Chambre de Namur
Millenium Orchestra
Conductor
Leonardo Garcia AlarconWorks
Passio secundum Johannem (St John Passion)Responsori per la Settimana Santa
Artists
Giuseppina BridelliChoeur de Chambre de Namur
Millenium Orchestra
Conductor
Leonardo Garcia AlarconAbout
The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo García Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti’s Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practised by this composer.
Reviews
Leonardo García Alarcón positions every movement of the St John Passion between meditative choral responses attributed to Scarlatti in a manuscript dated 1705 in Bologna’s Accademia Filarmonica (and which also have stylistic common ground with Holy Week lessons by Veneziano). The resulting hybrid is an unhistorical Passiontide pasticcio but the warmly expressive results make convincing textual sense.
Recordings of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Passion secundum Johannem are not that common, so...I’m glad to have heard it.Error on this page? Let us know here
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