back

Atalante

Title: Reliquie di Roma I: Lamentarium

Label: Nimbus Alliance

Cat No:NI6152
Format:CD

Our price £ 13.49
Normally Ships within 24 to 48 hours.

Email this to a friend.

Discovery Records
specialist music - mail order

The generation of Roman composers after Monteverdi, led by Luigi Rossi and Marco Marazzoli, intensified the rich and rhetorically powerful poetry of theircontemporaries to create a new musical aesthetic that was sensual, passionate, ecstatic, even erotic. Rossi and Marazzoli produced sacred and secular operas and oratorios, and vocal chamber music, of which their combined output of solo and ensemble cantatas numbers over 700.

Rossi was the leading composer of 17th-century bel canto, the new elegant and lyrical style of melodic writing and ultra expressive recitative that was areaction to the earlier, text-dominated stilo rappresentativo. The triple-time arias in particular are full of his unmistakable suavity. However, in hislament of the Magdalene, Rossi conveys the penitent’s torturous spiritual and sensual journey almost entirely through extravagant recitative. Only a brief aria, whose long-awaited arrival comes near the end, delivers thepoignant moment of resignation and final despair.

Erin Headley’s sensational new group Atalante is named in honour of Leonardo da Vinci’s friend and pupil Atalante Migliorotti, inventor of the lirone. Thatmagic and ethereal bowed instrument has been Erin Headley’s domain for the past 30 years, through an astonishing number of performances and recordingsthat have been acclaimed worldwide.

Track Listing for Reliquie di Roma I: Lamentarium
1 Luigi Rossi Passacaglia del Seigneur Louigi
2 Marco Marazzoli Elena invecchiata
3 Luigi Rossi Spargete sospiri
4 Marco Marazzoli Lamento d’Artemisia
5 Luigi Rossi Pianto della Maddalena
6 Marc’ Antonio Pasqualini Perché dolce Bambino
7 Domenico Mazzocchi Piangete occhi,piangete
8 Luigi Rossi Peccantum me quotidie
9 Luigi Rossi Conclusion of Oratorio per la Settimana Santa

Discovery catalogue available for
Atalante

Reliquie di Roma I: Lamentarium