Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca - Giovanni Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 66:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Divox | # CDX 79504 | Recorded: 1995
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 66:31 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Divox | # CDX 79504 | Recorded: 1995
In 1996, the complete recording of the oratorio La morte del cor penitente (The Death of the Penitent Heart), composed around 1671, by the Northern Italian Early-Music ensemble Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca was a special event: for the first time, the Italian composer Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) an important creator of sacred and chamber music – was introduced with a voluminous work. At the same time, the recording, which went on to win several awards, also marked the beginning of the career of the Sonatori around Andrea Marcon, now long famous. Legrenzi was a master of baroque musical rhetoric: expressive harmonies and melodic elegance transformed the libretto by an unknown author, which illustrates its theme with numerous metaphors, into a sensuous pleasure.