Various Composers

An Italian Xmas

Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano), Daniele Proni (harpsichord), Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri (conductor)

2 CD  – Total time: 145:42
Booklet 12 pages, Italian/English

18,90 

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CD 1

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
“Nulla in mundo pax sincera”
Mottetto per soprano, due violini, viola e basso – RV 630
1. Aria “Nulla in mundo pax sincera”
2. Recitative “Blando colore”
3. Aria “Spirat anguis inter flores”
4. Alleluia

Lorenzo Gaetano Zavateri (1690-1764)
Concerto per due violini, archi e basso continuo Op.1 n.10 “Pastorale”
5. Grave, Adagio
6. Allegro
7. Largo
8. Pastorale: Andante

Giacomo Antonio Perti, [Giovanni Battista Martini]
“Æstuat mundi mare”
Mottetto per Canto solo, archi e basso continuo
9. Aria “Aestuat mundi mare”
10. Recitative “Quid dicis, o nimium”
11. Aria “Angelicae Voces”
12. Aria “Alleluia”

Giuseppe Torelli (1658–1709)
Concerto à quattro, in forma di Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale, Op.8 No.6 (“Christmas Concerto”)
13. Grave, Vivace
14. Largo
15. Vivace

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)
“Sæviat tellus inter rigores”
16. Aria “Sæviat tellus inter rigores”
17. Recitative “Carmelitarum ut confirmet ordinem”
18. Aria “O nox clara, quies serena”
19. Aria “Stellæ fidæ, vobis sit cura”
20. Recitative “Sub tantæ Virginis tutela”
21. Aria “Alleluia”

Recorded at Cappella Farnese, Bologna, December 17th, 2014
TOTAL TIME CD 1: 1h02’43”

CD 2

Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1713) *
Concerto Grosso Op.VI No.8 “fatto per la Notte di Natale”
1. Vivace, Grave
2. Allegro
3. Adagio, Allegro, Adagio
4. Vivace
5. Allegro
6. Pastorale

Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756) **
Sinfonia a 4 con violini (1755)
7. Allegro
8. Grave
9. Allegro assai

Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784) ***
Concerto a 4 pieno in D major HH.27 n.10
10. Allegro
11. Andante
12. Allegro

Giovanni Battista Martini (1706-1784) ***
Concerto con cembalo obbligato HH. 32 n. 3
13. Allegro moderato
14. Andante
15. Allegro

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) ***
16. Chaconne da “The Fairy Queen”

Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) ***
Concerto per clavicembalo in A major
17. Allegro ma non tanto
18. Andante
19. Allegro assai

Georg Muffat (1653-1704) ***
20. Ouverture da “Florilegium I”

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) ***
Concerto grosso in G major
21. A tempo giusto
22. Allegro
23. Adagio
24. Allegro
25. Allegro

TOTAL TIME CD 2: 1h25’09”

TOTAL TIME CD 1+ CD2: 2h27’52”

* Recorded at Cappella Farnese, Bologna, December 17th, 2014
** Recorded at Cappella Farnese, Bologna, December 20th, 2013

*** Recorded at Oratorio di S. Filippo Neri, Bologna, September 21st, 2013

A musical tour of seventeenth-eighteenth century Europe. The composers presented here were not only born at opposite ends of the Old Continent, but were familiar with one another’s homelands after their journeying in the flesh, in research, or at any rate in the spirit. The Christmas theme is the Leitmotif which unifies all the milestones of this fantastic music voyage.