Mauro Borgioni & Seicente Stravagante - Cazzati: Motets & Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Mauro Borgioni (bass) dedicates this CD to the composer Cazzati. The focus is on solo motets for bass with concertante voices, for which he has enlisted the Ensemble Seicento Stravagante with organ, cornett and violin. The vocal works are complemented by instrumental sonatas by Cazzati.

Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) is one of the most under-recognised Italian composers of the 17th century, although he was certainly one of the most prolific: He published 66 volumes of printed music - almost 2000 individual compositions across all genres of his time.

Cazzati worked at various courts and institutions in northern Italy, reaching his professional peak as maestro di cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and his last years in the service of the Gonzaga dukes in Mantua. His fate was probably to have been born a generation after the great innovator Claudio Monteverdi, whose style he consistently adopted and developed. From today's perspective, however, Monteverdi casts such a large shadow that an entire generation of outstanding composers is obscured by it.

Specialized in baroque repertoire, Mauro Borgioni's roles include Orfeo in ?L?Orfeo? by Claudio Monteverdi (Teatro Regio of Turin, Teatro Comunale of Ferrara, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, teatre Principal de Palma de Mallorca); Ulisse in ?Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria? by Claudio Monteverdi (Roma Reate Festival, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona ); Aeneas in ?Dido & Aeneas? by H. Purcell (Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Alighieri of Ravenna, Teatro Verdi of Gorizia), Acrimante ne "L'Empio punito" di A. Melani (Reate Festival); Haman in Esther and Polyphemus in ?Acis and Galatea? by G.F. Handel (Teatro Comunale di Ferrara).

His repertoire includes sacred baroque works like Monteverdi's Vespers & Operas; Matthus & Johannes Passion, Mass in B Minor by J.S. Bach; Handel's Messiah & La Resurrezione; classical works like the Pauken & Nelson-Messe by Haydn, Mozart Vesperae and Missae. Mauro is also active in contemporary repertoire, he has performed The Traveller in ?Curlew River? and Noye in Noye?s fludde by Benjamin Britten with Prato Chamber Orchestra and Johnatan Webb; Aye in ?Akhnathen? by Philipp Glass with the Orchestra of Teatro Regio in Turin with Dante Anzolini

He has participated in various festivals and concert seasons in Italy, Europe also in Mexico, Canada and USA, and has recorded for Pan Classics, Zig-Zag Territories, Alpha-Prod, Brilliant Classics, Elucevanlestelle Records, Stradivarius, K617, Glossa, ORF, Arcana, Ricercar and for radio and television.

Tracklist:
01. Annuntio vobis. Per un Santo.
02. Sonata Terza »la Bulgarina«
03. Dulcis amor. Del Santissimo Sacramento.
04. Sonata quarta »la Calcagnina«
05. Stillae sparse per me.
06. La Calva. Violino solo overo Violino e Basso
07. Regina coeli
08. Sonata duodecima »la Strozza«
09. Factum est praelium magnum
10. La Pezzola. Violino solo overo Violino e Basso
11. Mortali, che fate (Aria Morale)
12. Sonata sesta »la Giralda«
13. Eja crudeles. Per un Martire, o per il Santissimo.


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