Caldara: Morte e sepoltura di Cristo Maria Grazia Schiavo

• Antonio Caldara:
• 1Laboravi in gemitu meo02:36
• 2Part I: Introduzione04:26
• Maria Maddalena:
• 3Part I: Aria: Deh sciogliete (Maddalena)04:41
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 4Part I: Recitativo: Caro Giesu (Giacobbe)00:58
• 5Part I: Aria: E morto il mio Giesu (Giacobbe)07:47
• Giuseppe:
• 6Part I: Recitativo: In mar di sangue assorto (Giuseppe)01:12
• Nicodemo:
• 7Part I: Aria: Io so, che intanto (Giuseppe)03:10
• 8Part I: Recitativo: O Redentor (Nicodemo)01:17
• 9Part I: Aria: Gioia la cruda morte (Nicodemo)04:17
• Antonio Caldara:
• 10Sonata a 4 No. 3: Larghetto - Allegro01:46
• Centurione:
• 11Part I: Recitativo: Di fosco, e tetro ammanto (Centurione)00:58
• 12Part I: Aria: Si ravvisan (Centurione)05:28
• Johann Joseph Fux:
• 13Sonata in G Minor, K.347: I. Largo01:38
• Maria Maddalena:
• 14Part I: Recitativo: A te, vivendo (Maddalena)01:23
• 15Part I: Aria: Io t'offesi (Maddalena)07:33
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 16Part I: Recitativo: Si chiuse le pupille (Giacobbe)00:50
• 17Part I: Aria: Lasciami, eterno Amante (Giacobbe)03:56
• Giuseppe:
• 18Part I: Recitativo: Mani Divine (Giuseppe)01:08
• Giuseppe, Nicodemo:
• 19Part I: Arioso & recitativo: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo)00:38
• 20Part I: Aria a 2: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo)03:32
• Maria Maddalena, Maria di Giacobbe:
• 21Part I: Recitativo: Dogliosi miei sospiri (Maddalena, Giacobbe)00:53
• 22Part I: Coro: Ecco svelati (Chorus)03:48
• Antonio Caldara:
• 23Transfìge dulcissime02:01
• Antonio Vivaldi:
• 24Sonata for 2 Violins and Viola in E-Flat Major, RV 130, Suonata a 4 al Santo Sepolcro04:03
• Giuseppe:
• 25Part II: Recitativo: Fortunata alma mia (Giuseppe)00:58
• 26Part II: Aria: Languire, morire (Giuseppe)07:12
• Nicodemo:
• 27Part II: Recitativo: Amabile mio ben (Nicodemo)00:59
• 28Part II: Aria: Ah ti tradi (Nicodemo)04:40
• Giuseppe, Nicodemo, Centurione:
• 29Part II: Recitativo: Tra bianchi lini involto (Giuseppe, Nicodemo, Centurione)01:36
• Centurione:
• 30Part II: Aria: Verde tronco, ove lo scuote (Centurione)04:11
• Maria Maddalena:
• 31Part II: Recitativo: Vieni, compagna fida (Maddalena)00:57
• 32Part II: Aria: Cari marmi (Maddalena)05:43
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 33Part II: Recitativo: Urna gentil (Giacobbe)00:50
• 34Part II: Aria: Con te favello (Giacobbe)03:48
• Giuseppe:
• 35Part II: Recitativo: Gelido occaso (Giuseppe)01:12
• 36Part II: Aria: Parto: restate in pace (Giuseppe)08:19
• Antonio Caldara:
• 37Sinfonia concertata: Adagio - Allegro03:52
• Maria Maddalena:
• 38Part II: Recitativo: Da questa ombrosa reggia (Maddalena)00:45
• 39Part II: Aria: Passaggier, qui ferma il passo (Maddalena)03:55
• Giuseppe:
• 40Part II: Recitativo accompagnato: Vedove Madri (Giuseppe)01:26
• 41Part II: Coro: La pienezza de' tempi (Chorus)03:51
• Total Runtime02:04:13

Info for Caldara: Morte e sepoltura di Cristo

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.

Maria Grazia Schiavo, soprano (Maria Maddalena)
Silvia Frigato, soprano (Maria di Giacobbe)
Martina Belli, alto (Giuseppe d’Arimatea)
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani, tenor (Nicodemo)
Ugo Guagliardo, bass (Centurione)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi, conductor

Recorded in Stavanger (Konserthus), Norway, in January 2014
Engineered by Per Ravnaas

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