Caldara: Morte e sepoltura di Cristo Maria Grazia Schiavo

• Antonio Caldara:
• 1 Laboravi in gemitu meo 02:36
• 2 Part I: Introduzione 04:26
• Maria Maddalena:
• 3 Part I: Aria: Deh sciogliete (Maddalena) 04:41
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 4 Part I: Recitativo: Caro Giesu (Giacobbe) 00:58
• 5 Part I: Aria: E morto il mio Giesu (Giacobbe) 07:47
• Giuseppe:
• 6 Part I: Recitativo: In mar di sangue assorto (Giuseppe) 01:12
• Nicodemo:
• 7 Part I: Aria: Io so, che intanto (Giuseppe) 03:10
• 8 Part I: Recitativo: O Redentor (Nicodemo) 01:17
• 9 Part I: Aria: Gioia la cruda morte (Nicodemo) 04:17
• Antonio Caldara:
• 10 Sonata a 4 No. 3: Larghetto - Allegro 01:46
• Centurione:
• 11 Part I: Recitativo: Di fosco, e tetro ammanto (Centurione) 00:58
• 12 Part I: Aria: Si ravvisan (Centurione) 05:28
• Johann Joseph Fux:
• 13 Sonata in G Minor, K.347: I. Largo 01:38
• Maria Maddalena:
• 14 Part I: Recitativo: A te, vivendo (Maddalena) 01:23
• 15 Part I: Aria: Io t'offesi (Maddalena) 07:33
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 16 Part I: Recitativo: Si chiuse le pupille (Giacobbe) 00:50
• 17 Part I: Aria: Lasciami, eterno Amante (Giacobbe) 03:56
• Giuseppe:
• 18 Part I: Recitativo: Mani Divine (Giuseppe) 01:08
• Giuseppe, Nicodemo:
• 19 Part I: Arioso & recitativo: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo) 00:38
• 20 Part I: Aria a 2: Crudi ferri (Giuseppe, Nicodemo) 03:32
• Maria Maddalena, Maria di Giacobbe:
• 21 Part I: Recitativo: Dogliosi miei sospiri (Maddalena, Giacobbe) 00:53
• 22 Part I: Coro: Ecco svelati (Chorus) 03:48
• Antonio Caldara:
• 23 Transfìge dulcissime 02:01
• Antonio Vivaldi:
• 24 Sonata for 2 Violins and Viola in E-Flat Major, RV 130, Suonata a 4 al Santo Sepolcro 04:03
• Giuseppe:
• 25 Part II: Recitativo: Fortunata alma mia (Giuseppe) 00:58
• 26 Part II: Aria: Languire, morire (Giuseppe) 07:12
• Nicodemo:
• 27 Part II: Recitativo: Amabile mio ben (Nicodemo) 00:59
• 28 Part II: Aria: Ah ti tradi (Nicodemo) 04:40
• Giuseppe, Nicodemo, Centurione:
• 29 Part II: Recitativo: Tra bianchi lini involto (Giuseppe, Nicodemo, Centurione) 01:36
• Centurione:
• 30 Part II: Aria: Verde tronco, ove lo scuote (Centurione) 04:11
• Maria Maddalena:
• 31 Part II: Recitativo: Vieni, compagna fida (Maddalena) 00:57
• 32 Part II: Aria: Cari marmi (Maddalena) 05:43
• Maria di Giacobbe:
• 33 Part II: Recitativo: Urna gentil (Giacobbe) 00:50
• 34 Part II: Aria: Con te favello (Giacobbe) 03:48
• Giuseppe:
• 35 Part II: Recitativo: Gelido occaso (Giuseppe) 01:12
• 36 Part II: Aria: Parto: restate in pace (Giuseppe) 08:19
• Antonio Caldara:
• 37 Sinfonia concertata: Adagio - Allegro 03:52
• Maria Maddalena:
• 38 Part II: Recitativo: Da questa ombrosa reggia (Maddalena) 00:45
• 39 Part II: Aria: Passaggier, qui ferma il passo (Maddalena) 03:55
• Giuseppe:
• 40 Part II: Recitativo accompagnato: Vedove Madri (Giuseppe) 01:26
• 41 Part II: Coro: La pienezza de' tempi (Chorus) 03:51
• Total Runtime 02:04:13

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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