ANTONIO CALDARA Morte e sepoltura di ChristoOratorio. Vienna, 1724
GCD 923403
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Maria Maddalena – Maria Grazia Schiavo, sopranoMaria di Giacobbe – Silvia Frigato, sopranoGiuseppe d’Arimatea – Martina Belli, altoNicodemo – Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, tenorCenturione – Ugo Guagliardo, bass
Stavanger Symphony OrchestraFabio Biondi, violin & direction
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Total playing time 64:06 + 60:31 Recorded in Stavanger (Konserthus), Norway, in January 2014 Engineered by Per Ravnaas Artistic direction: Peter Laenger Booklet essay by Brian W. Pritchard English - Français - Deutsch
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ANTONIO CALDARA (c.1671-1736)Morte e sepoltura di ChristoOratorio. Vienna, 1724
CD1: Prima parte
01 Motet: Laboravi in gemitu meo [Antonio Caldara] 02 Introduzione 03 Aria: Deh sciogliete (Maria Maddalena) 04 Recitativo: Caro Gesù (Maria di Giacobbe) 05 Aria: È morto il mio Gesù (Maria di Giacobbe) 06 Recitativo: In mar di sangue assorto (Giuseppe) 07 Aria: Io so, che intanto (Giuseppe) 08 Recitativo: O Redentor (Nicodemo) 09 Aria: Gioia la cruda morte (Nicodemo)
10 Sonata: Larghetto – Allegro [Antonio Caldara]
11 Recitativo: Di fosco, e tetro ammanto (Centurione) 12 Aria: Sì; ravvisan (Centurione)
13 Sinfonia: Largo [Johann Joseph Fux]
14 Recitativo: A te, vivendo (Maria Maddalena) 15 Aria: Io t’offesi (Maria Maddalena) 16 Recitativo: Sì; chiuse le pupille (Maria di Giacobbe) 17 Aria: Lasciami, eterno Amante (Maria di Giacobbe) 18 Recitativo: Mani Divine (Giuseppe) 19 Arioso & recitativo: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo) 20 Aria a 2: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo) 21 Recitativo: Dogliosi miei sospiri (Maria Maddalena, Maria di Giacobbe) 22 Coro: Ecco svelati
CD2: Seconda parte
01 Motet: Transfige, dulcissime Jesu [Antonio Caldara]
02 Sonata “Al Santo Sepolcro” [Antonio Vivaldi]
03 Recitativo: Fortunata alma mia (Giuseppe) 04 Aria: Languire, morire (Giuseppe) 05 Recitativo: Amabile mio ben (Nicodemo) 06 Aria: Ah ti tradì (Nicodemo) 07 Recitativo: Tra bianchi lini involto (Giuseppe, Nicodemo, Centurione) 08 Aria: Verde tronco, ove lo scuote (Centurione) 09 Recitativo: Vieni, compagna fida (Maria Maddalena) 10 Aria: Cari marmi (Maria Maddalena) 11 Recitativo: Urna gentil (Maria di Giacobbe) 12 Aria: Con te favello (Maria di Giacobbe) 13 Recitativo: Gelido occaso (Giuseppe) 14 Aria: Parto: restate in pace (Giuseppe)
15 Sinfonia Concertata: Adagio – Allegro [Antonio Caldara]
16 Recitativo: Da questa ombrosa reggia (Maria Maddalena) 17 Aria: Passaggier, qui ferma il passo (Maria Maddalena) 18 Recitativo accompagnato: Vedove Madri (Giuseppe) 19 Coro: La pienezza de’ tempi
About this CD
With Antonio Caldara’s Morte e sepoltura di Christo, released on Glossa just after a new album devoted to Vivaldi’s late violin concertos, Fabio Biondi returns to the Italian oratorio, another of his specialities. The Venetians Caldara and Vivaldi may have been contemporaries but their career paths led them in different directions, and Caldara was to spend much time working in Mantua and Rome before securing the position of vice-Kapellmeister for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. For the last twenty years of his life Caldara produced copious quantities of oratorios (and operas), adding a rich sense of counterpoint and making use of the broad orchestral colouring offered by the varied instruments available to him at the Imperial court. Composed for the Lenten season in 1724, Morte e sepoltura follows the typical two-part scheme of the time, to a text comprising a series of reflections as from personages involved in some way in the events of the Passion of Christ. Notable is the profusion of solo arias with obliggato instrumental parts.
Fabio Biondi’s recording, with a team of soloists led by Maria Grazia Schiavo and Silvia Frigato, also includes other echoes of Caldara’s Italian past – a pair of motets and instrumental music (a Vivaldi Sonata also makes an appearance) –, and he directs the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, with which he has worked so successfully in the Norwegian orchestra’s early music programme since 2006. The album also contains an exemplary essay by the leading Caldara scholar Brian W Pritchard.