Melani - Concerti Spirituali
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95970
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 15th November 2019
Contents
Works
Ad arma, cor meumAlma Redemptoris
Cantemus Domino
Congregate caetum
Date voces pueri
Derelinquat impius
Ecce salus
Eia in arma
Fallacicum sono
Iustus ut palma
O felix anima
Peccantem me quotidie
Quae est ista
Quid dormis
Recolite memoriam
Salve Mater et Regina
Salve superum Regina
Spirate zeffiri
Artists
I Musici del Gran PrincipeConductor
Samuele LastrucciWorks
Ad arma, cor meumAlma Redemptoris
Cantemus Domino
Congregate caetum
Date voces pueri
Derelinquat impius
Ecce salus
Eia in arma
Fallacicum sono
Iustus ut palma
O felix anima
Peccantem me quotidie
Quae est ista
Quid dormis
Recolite memoriam
Salve Mater et Regina
Salve superum Regina
Spirate zeffiri
Artists
I Musici del Gran PrincipeConductor
Samuele LastrucciAbout
Brilliant Classics has long been renowned for reviving little-known figures from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. Little enough is now known about Alessandro Melani, and his music has almost been forgotten, but this beautifully prepared collection of his religious music should go some way to reviving his reputation.
Born in 1639 in the city of Pistoia to the cathedral’s bell-ringer, the youngest of seven sons, Alessandro Melani undertook his musical apprenticeship at the cathedral before taking up directorships in grander Italian cities. A move to Rome in 1667 changed his career and established his reputation; he came under the patronage of the Medici family, and published three collections of sacred music. The last of them now receives its first-ever complete recording.
This is Baroque vocal chamber music at once sombre and sumptuous, reverent and yet richly decorated like the basilicas where Melani worked. Marian hymns, penitential psalms and liturgical propers all receive lavish treatments in combinations of two, three and five voices, buttressed in this recording by a five-part continuo accompaniment designed to draw out every one of Melani’s luscious harmonies and featuring organ, harpsichord, cello, string bass, archlute and theorbo.
The recording is the work of a dynamic young Italian early-music group founded in 2017 and led by the prodigiously talented Samuele Lastrucci, formerly assistant to the mercurial Baroque expert Federico Maria Sardelli. Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the Tuscan-based Da Vinci Baroque Festival; he is presently maestro di capella of the Church of Ss. Michele and Gaetano in Florence.
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