Weeping Philosophers - Arias By Carissimi, Durante

Barokowa Muzyka Klasyczna / Arias
premiera polska: 2024-03-11
opakowanie: Digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
The depiction of philosophers and philosophy in early modern music is varied and colourful, at times tragicomic and by no means always 'historically informed'.
The noble but mocked Seneca in Monteverdi's Poppea, the hen-pecked, polygamous Socrates in Telemann's Der geduldige Sokrates, the tipple-loving Diogenes and Aristotle in the ballad songs of Leveridge and Lampe, and the lovestruck Heraclitus and Democritus in the more serious duets. There are also the trios and laments of Carissimi, Purcell, Strozzi, Couperin and Jean-Baptise Stuck.
Heraclitus and Democritus, two pre-Socratic 5th century thinkers, were particularly fruitful subjects for depiction due to their association with two polar effects: Heraclitus came to be known as the 'weeping philosopher' and was often contrasted in artistic depictions with Democritus, the 'laughing philosopher'.
Far from being detached oracles rhetorically dispensing wisdom, these philosopher-singers are feeling as well as thinking subjects, subject to suffering and (self) derision in equal measure.
In this project countertenor Lawrence Zazzo collaborates with soprano Soraya Mafi and Jorge Jimenez plus Spanish ensemble Tercia Realidad to explore as a piece of creative practice the depiction of philosophers and their philosophies in Italian, German, French, and English vocal music in the early modern period.

muzycy:
Lawrence Zazzo (counter-tenor), Tercia Realidad, Jorge Jimenez

utwory:
Barbara Strozzi: L'Eraclito amoroso
Giacomo Carissimi: I filosofi
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Ballo di ginnosofisti filosofi
Henry Purcell: Love thou art best
Jean-Baptiste Stuck: Kantate "Heraclite et Democrite"
Georg Philipp Telemann: Vergnüge dich, mein stiller Mut
Richard Leveridge: The Tippling Philosophers
Francois Couperin: Heraclite, Democrite, Diogene
Francois Duval: Sonata IV (instrumental)
John Frederick Lampe: Zeno, Plato, Aristotle
Francesco Durante: Kantate "Seneca svenato ossia la crudelta di Nerone"

wydano: 22nd Mar 2024
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