FRANCISCO CORSELLI Music at the Spanish Court
GCD C80307
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Nuria Rial, soprano
El Concierto Español Emilio Moreno, solo violin & director
Production details
Total playing time 62:37 Recorded in San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Monasterio), Spain, in February 2002 Engineered by Isidro Matamoros Produced by Carlos Céster & Emilio Moreno
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FRANCISCO CORSELLI (1705-1778)Music at the 18th-century Spanish Court
Achille in Sciro (Madrid, 1744) Ouerture 1 Allegro 2 Affettuoso3 Spiritoso
A ti, invisible ruiseñor canoro (Madrid, 1749) [Cantada de Navidad con violines, oboés, flauta obligada y baxo] 4 Recitado 5 Aria. Andantino Achille in Sciro 6 Marcia. Allegro 7 Marcia. Maestoso, e staccato
Lectio 2ª in Sabato Sancto (Madrid, 1749. Rev. 1761) [a Tiple solo con Violines, Flautas y Trompas] 8 Aleph - Beth - Ghimel - Daleth - He - Vau
Oratorio de Santa Clotilde (Parma, 1733) 9 Ouertur. Allegro
Lamentación 2ª del Jueves (Madrid, 1773) [a solo de Tiple, con violines y violones obligados con sordina]10 Lamed - Mem - Nun - Samech
Il Farnace (Dramma per Musica. Madrid, 1739) Sinfonia 11 Vivo 12 Allegro e Piano 13 Spiritoso
Hasta aquí, Dios amante (Madrid, 1740) [Cantata de Soprano Solo para Reyes con Violines, Oboès, Viola y Bajo] 14 Recitado 15 Aria. Allegro
Il Farnace 16 Marcia. Stacato 17 Marcia
About this CD
The first disc from El Concierto Español, the orchestra founded by the violinist Emilio Moreno (who is both a founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and a great champion of Spanish music) is dedicated to one of the most important composers of the 18th century in Spain, Francisco Corselli. Of Italian origin, Corselli spent a considerable part of his career working for the Spanish court, to which he brought the opera seria which was enjoying so much success elsewhere in Europe at the time. Lively orchestral passages and colourful opera arias alternate here with deeply-felt Holy Week lamentations in a recording from 2002, which as the vocal soloist also involved the great Catalan soprano Nuria Rial, who once again is demonstrating her precious talent in Spanish music.