Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Vivaldi: Musica sacra per alto (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Vivaldi: Musica sacra per alto (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:37 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
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When it comes to posterity, Vivaldi has been quite lucky. Thanks to a series of happy accidents, his personal manuscript collection has survived through the centuries, allowing his music to be preserved and later played and recorded. Contralto Delphine Galou and Ottavio Dantone, the director of the Accademia Bizantina, drew from this invaluable batch of nearly 450 compositions to develop this album’s program of sacred music dedicated to the alto voice.

This recording includes two “introdutioni” for alto, a kind of motet whose form would have been devised by Vivaldi for his Venetian work for the Pietà. You can also find the vespertine hymn Deus tuorum militum for alto and tenor (Alessandro Giangrande), as well as a Regina coeli, a Marian antiphon played on Easter Sunday.

At the heart of this album is a violin concerto written for the day of the The Assumption of Mary (August 15th). The importance of this celebration in the Italian liturgical calendar is underlined here by a score of an unusual length for a Vivaldi concerto, with it being divided into two orchestral parts that exchange a sometimes and sometimes joyous dialogue. Written for his student Anna Maria, the solo violin part preserved in the archives is played here by Alessandro Tampieri, who has once again enriched it with a very virtuoso “capriccio” of his own making. – François Hudry

Tracklist:
01. Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: I. Filiae maestae Jerusalem
02. Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant zephyri
03. Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: III. Sed tenebris diffusis
04. Hymnus Deus tuorum militum, RV 612
05. Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: I. Allegro
06. Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: II. Largo
07. Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: III. Allegro
08. Salve Regina, RV 618: I. Salve Regina
09. Salve Regina, RV 618: II. Ad te clamamus
10. Salve Regina, RV 618: III. Ad te suspiramus
11. Salve Regina, RV 618: IV. Eia ergo
12. Salve Regina, RV 618: V. Et Jesum benedictum
13. Salve Regina, RV 618: VI. O clemens, o pia
14. Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: I. Non in pratis aut in hortis
15. Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: II. Pro me caput spinas habet
16. Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: III. Quæsone facias, Domine
17. Regina coeli, RV 615