Scarlatti / Giuseppina Bridelli /Alarcon,Leonardo- Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio secundum Johannem (CD)
Alessandro Scarlatti's St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages. The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo GarcÃa Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti's Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practiced by this composer.
Tracklist:
- Plange Quasi Virgo
- Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
- Plange Quasi Virgo
- In Illo Tempore Egressus Est
- Ecce Vidimus Eum
- Sequebatur Autem Jesum Simon Petrus
- Omnes Amici Mei
- Adducunt Ergo Jesum a Caipha
- Vinea Mea Electa 1
- Hunc Ergo Titulum Multi Judaeorum 1
- O Vos Omnes 1
- Judaei Ergo, Quoniam Parasceve Erat 1
- Aestimatus Sum
Alessandro Scarlatti's St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages. The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo GarcÃa Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti's Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practiced by this composer.
Tracklist:
- Plange Quasi Virgo
- Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi
- Plange Quasi Virgo
- In Illo Tempore Egressus Est
- Ecce Vidimus Eum
- Sequebatur Autem Jesum Simon Petrus
- Omnes Amici Mei
- Adducunt Ergo Jesum a Caipha
- Vinea Mea Electa 1
- Hunc Ergo Titulum Multi Judaeorum 1
- O Vos Omnes 1
- Judaei Ergo, Quoniam Parasceve Erat 1
- Aestimatus Sum