Title: Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio secundum Johannem Artist: Scarlatti / Choeur De Chambre De Namur Label: Ricercar Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5400439003781 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2017-03-24 Number of Discs: 1
Alessandro Scarlatti's St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages. The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo García Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti's Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practiced by this composer.
Tracks: 1.1 Plange Quasi Virgo 1.2 Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi 1.3 Plange Quasi Virgo 1.4 In Illo Tempore Egressus Est 1.5 Ecce Vidimus Eum 1.6 Sequebatur Autem Jesum Simon Petrus 1.7 Omnes Amici Mei 1.8 Adducunt Ergo Jesum a Caipha 1.9 Vinea Mea Electa 1.10 Hunc Ergo Titulum Multi Judaeorum 1.11 O Vos Omnes 1.12 Judaei Ergo, Quoniam Parasceve Erat 1.13 Aestimatus Sum
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