Il Pianto di Maria - The Virgin's Lament

opis:
Il Giardino Armonico w znakomitej formie, po rewelacyjnych Handlowskich '12 Concerto Grossi Op.6" przyszedł czas na lamenty m in Monteverdiego i Vivaldiego, z Bernardą Fink.


Editor's Info:
Il Giardino Armonico, under their director Giovanni Antonini, are joined by celebrated mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, for a project exploring the Passion of Christ as seen through the eyes of the Virgin Mary with a recording featuring rare recordings of two settings of Mary's passionate Easter lament.

The two central works are both vocal settings of the Virgin's lament. The first, Il Pianto di Maria, was long thought to be by Handel - a clear reflection of its outstanding musical quality. It was not until the 1990s that handwriting experts established it as the work of the little-known Venetian composer Giovanni Ferrandini.

The other key vocal work will be the World Premiere recording of an aria by Francesco Conti - composer to the Habsburg court of Vienna - in which the martyr Lorenzo, threatened with being burnt alive, refuses to deny his Christian faith. This deeply touching aria features a rarely heard ancestor of the modern clarinet, frequently used in 'pathetic' arias of the period - the soprano chalumeau.