Julia Lezhneva – Vivaldi: Gloria – Nisi Dominus – Nulla in mundo pax (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

An organist (he worked with Gaston Litaize in Paris), choirmaster, and conductor, Diego Fasolis is a vital part of baroque music. In 1995 he founded the Vanitas ensemble in Lugano, and then I Barocchisti (“the Baroques”) which represents the refoundation of the famous Società cameristica di Lugano set up by Loehrer in 1961 to which we owe the first great recordings of Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals. The ensemble took a great leap forward in its new incarnation under Fasolis’ baton. The Barocchisti recordings have been showered with awards and great international soloists regularly come to collaborate with them, including Philippe Jaroussky, Maurice Steger, Max Emanuel Cencic, and, in recent years, Cecilia Bartoli who has set up a close collaboration.
With Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva and Argentine counter-tenor Franco Fagioli, I Barocchisti offer us a particularly joyful vision of two of Vivaldi’s vocal masterpieces, wreathed in the same slightly-naive halo as worn by the Madonnas painted in all of Venice’s churches. The motet Nulla in mundo pax for soprano and continuo completes this radiant Vivaldi album with its image of an ideal world nestled in a comforting bubble.

Tracklist:
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
01. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-1. Gloria in excelsis
02. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-2. Et in terra pax
03. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-3. Laudamus te
04. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-4. Gratias agimus tibi
05. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-5. Propter magnum gloriam
06. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-6. Domine Deus, Rex Coelestis
07. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-7. Domini fili unigenite
08. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-8. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
09. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-9. Qui tollis peccata mundi
10. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-10. Qui sedes ad dexteram patris
11. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-11. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
12. Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-12. Cum Sancto Spiritu
13. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-1. “Nisi Dominus” (Allegro)
14. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-2. “Vanum est vobis” (Largo)
15. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-3. “Surgite” (Presto)
16. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-4. “Cum dederit” (Andante)
17. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-5. “Sicut sagittae” (Allegro)
18. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-6. “Beatus vir” (Andante)
19. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-7. “Gloria Patri” (Larghetto)
20. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-8. “Sicut erat in principio” (Allegro)
21. Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-9. “Amen” (Allegro)
22. Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-1. Nulla in mundo pax (Larghetto)
23. Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-2. Blando colore (Recitativo)
24. Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-3. Spirat anguis inter flores (Allegro)
25. Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-4. Alleluia (Allegro)