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A Scarlatti - Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa | Glossa GCD921205

A Scarlatti - Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa

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Label: Glossa

Cat No: GCD921205

Barcode: 8424562212053

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th February 2011

Contents

Artists

Cristina Miatello (soprano)
Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor)
Ensemble Aurora

Conductor

Enrico Gatti

Works

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa

Artists

Cristina Miatello (soprano)
Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor)
Ensemble Aurora

Conductor

Enrico Gatti

About

Alessandro Scarlatti in Italy, like Marc-Antoine Charpentier and later François Couperin in France, brought the musical form of the Lamentations of Jeremiah to a state of dramatic intensity, a complement to the religious ritual which even in the first decade of the 18th century had barely changed since the Middle Ages. One of the special characteristics of Scarlatti’s Lamentations is the skill with which he treats the melodic line, which he reduces to what is bare and essential stylistically, resisting the temptation to indulge himself in operatic writing, preferring instead ‘madrigalistic’ effects.

It was around 1707 that Scarlatti composed his six settings of the Lamentations (two each for the three days leading up to Easter Sunday, although by forming part of the service of Matins they would be sung on the previous evening), and it was not until the Umbrian violinist and director Enrico Gatti went to the Bolognese Eremo di Ronzano with his Ensemble Aurora that these Lamentations received their first complete recording.

The two soloists called upon by Gatti to be backed by his instrumental group (one of whom is keyboard player Guido Morini) were soprano Cristina Miatello and tenor Gian Paolo Fagotto.

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