Stradella: San Giovanni Battista Le Banquet Céleste & Damien Guillon

• Alessandro Stradella (1643 - 1682):
• 1Sinfonia02:01
• 2Amichi selve, addio02:21
• 3Dove, Battista, dove00:59
• 4Soffin pur, rabbiosi fremiti01:54
• 5Restate, O mai, restate00:21
• 6Dove, Battista, dove II01:27
• 7Invitto Erode01:06
• 8Volin pure lontano dal sen02:45
• 9Si, si de tuo devoti00:15
• 10Anco in cielo01:35
• 11Ma poi lasciando01:20
• 12Sorde dive06:06
• 13Non pic, cedo non più00:58
• 14Non fia ver che mai si sciolga01:56
• 15Non più, ferma, non più03:25
• 16Tuonera tra mille turbini02:22
• 17Di cieco carcere01:42
• 18S'uccida il reo00:53
• 19Se pegno gradito01:26
• 20S'uccida il reo II00:15
• 21Proverà se questo scettro00:57
• 22Freni l'orgoglio01:08
• 23Sinfonia II03:06
• 24Vaghe ninfe del giordano02:33
• 25Giorno sì lieto00:19
• 26Anco il sol, fuor dell'usato01:13
• 27O, di questi occhi miei02:16
• 28Io per me non cangerei06:12
• 29Figlia se un gran tesoro02:45
• 30Bramo sol, che Battista01:30
• 31Adagio assai & net seren de' miei contenti03:17
• 32Deh, che più tardi02:27
• 33Queste lagrime e sospiri04:28
• 34In questa de' miei affeti00:25
• 35Proi pur le miei vendette02:49
• 36Il castigo d'un empio00:48
• 37Quando mai fia che morte01:34
• 38Morirai, morirai01:09
• 39Cadesti al fine00:29
• 40Sù, coronatemi02:23
• 41Chi nel commun gioire02:03
• 42Che gioire, che contento01:39
• Total Runtime01:20:37

Info for Stradella: San Giovanni Battista

A composer who led a dissolute life and ended up stabbed to death in Genoa, Stradella nevertheless left a distinctive stamp on the history of music. He is situated at the intersection of several stylistic paths and periods, at the crossroads between opera and sacred drama, since his output, and especially San Giovanni Battista (St John the Baptist), marks the encounter of the great Roman oratorio inherited from Carissimi with the Venetian opera of Cavalli. Stradella is also close to the next generation, that of Scarlatti and Handel. His music is characterised by liveliness, expressiveness and profound humanity. Although San Giovanni Battista enjoyed genuine success when it was premiered in 1675, it was only in 1949 that the work was exhumed from the libraries where its score lay slumbering. That event took place in Perugia, and the role of Salome was sung by Maria Callas.

Damien Guillon, countertenor
Le Banquet Céleste

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