Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa
performed by
Concerto Soave, Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Jean-Marc Aymes (conductor)
composed by
Anonymous, Italian, Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Francesco Marcorelli, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Gregorian Chant, Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, Michelangelo Rossi
The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by Argentine-born Baroque specialist Maria Cristina Kiehr and still understand why that is: the composers included here, several of them very famous names, offer a rather scaled-down version of operatic monody to fulfill the requirements of church music, even when it came to the ...
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The sacred music on this disc -- settings of texts for Holy Week, from the early seventeenth century and influenced by the new monodic style -- has long been less familiar than the fiery secular music of the era. One may admire this recording by Argentine-born Baroque specialist Maria Cristina Kiehr and still understand why that is: the composers included here, several of them very famous names, offer a rather scaled-down version of operatic monody to fulfill the requirements of church music, even when it came to the profound Lamentations of Easter week. The holy Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mentioned (in French) in the tracklist are actually, if you were wondering, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday; apparently there was a tradition of designating such works, which were sung at Matins services, with the name of the previous day. The overall sound of this recording has a shimmering, slightly diffuse quality, with the basic sound laid down by the triple plucked strings of the continuo group (harp,...
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- Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae ("Feriae Quintae in Coena Domini"), motet for mezzo-soprano, soprano & continuo: Incipit Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae
- Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae ("Feriae Quintae in Coena Domini"), motet for mezzo-soprano, soprano & continuo: Vał. Et egressus est a filia Sion
- Toccata No. 4 in G minor (Toccate e corenti d'intavolatura d'organo e cimbalo (Rome, 1657)
- Iod. Manum suam, for voice & continuo (Feriae V in Coena Domini, Lectio Terza)
- Heu mihi Domine, motet for 4 voices (from Motets Book II for 4 voices)
- Lamentatio Ieremiae prophetae
- Lamed: Matribus suis dixierunt, for voice & continuo (Feriae VI in Parasceve, Lectio Seconda)
- Toccata for lute No. 5
- De Lamentatione Ieremiae Prophetae (Sabbati Sancti, Lectio Prima) (Manuscrit Q43 du Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)
- Toccata arpeggiata (Manoscritto Chigi. Roma, Biblioteca Vaticana), for lute
- Aleph: Quomodo obscuratum est aurum, for voice & continuo (Sabbati Sancti, Lectio Seconda)
- Incipit Oratio Ieremiae Prophetae (Sabbati Sancti, Lectio Terza) (Manuscrit Q43 du Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna)
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