Music for Francesco II d’Este: Prince of Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96236
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 13th November 2020
Contents
Works
Il nume d'amoreCleoptara Moribonda
Giga 'La Cimicella'
Sarabanda
Ciaconna for cello and b.c.
Di Lidia al sen vezzoso
Amor m'hai cosi avinto
Gelosia invidiosa
Coronata d'applausi
Sonata no.1 for violin and b.c.
Artists
Sofia Pezzi (soprano)Ettore Agati (countertenor)
Modena Barocca
Conductor
Giovanni PaganelliWorks
Il nume d'amoreCleoptara Moribonda
Giga 'La Cimicella'
Sarabanda
Ciaconna for cello and b.c.
Di Lidia al sen vezzoso
Amor m'hai cosi avinto
Gelosia invidiosa
Coronata d'applausi
Sonata no.1 for violin and b.c.
Artists
Sofia Pezzi (soprano)Ettore Agati (countertenor)
Modena Barocca
Conductor
Giovanni PaganelliAbout
Countless volumes of chamber, instrumental and vocal music were dedicated to the duke thanks to his generous patronage. This recording project has drawn on the remarkably rich resources of the duke’s own music library, and its unique collection of manuscripts affording the opportunity to make several world-premiere recordings of music that has probably lain unheard since the late 17th century. A case in point is the cantata composed by Vitali to mark the duke’s birthday, Sopra la nascita. Now much less familiar a name, Giuseppe Colombi wrote with an audaciously personal style, as the cantata Di Lidia al sen vezzoso reveals. Even more expressively striking is the cantata composed by Bononcini on the subject of the death of Cleopatra, and Gabrielli’s cantata Amore m’hai così avinto is an absorbing exploration of sexual jealousy.
Interspersed with these cantatas are sonatas and dances by Vitali and Bononcini which radiate brio and rhythmic verve, and the album concludes with another jealousy-themed duet by an unfamiliar name, Pietro Nicolò Sorosina (c. 1645-1732). The project came to life from an invitation on the part of the Grandezze e Meraviglie festival in Modena, and it is performed according to the highest standards of modern period-instrument practice by the festival’s house ensemble and led by the local early-music maestro Giovanni Paganelli, born in Modena in 1992.
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