Celano / Criscuolo / Romabarocca Ensemble: BaSS Cantatas
Celano / Criscuolo / Romabarocca Ensemble: BaSS Cantatas
Format: CD
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Artist: Celano / Criscuolo / Romabarocca Ensemble
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421966939
Genre: Classical
Giuseppe Corsi (c.1631/1691), known as Celani, was one of the most important composers of the Roman school active in the second half of the 17th century. Corsi's catalogue of works includes around 23 secular compositions including Cantatas for one voice and basso continuo. The protagonist of the cantata Dalle balze sicane is the mythological Enceladus who, having been plunged into the bowels of Mount Etna by the goddess Athena, invokes Jupiter to placate the outrage against him. The character's 'misfortunes' and 'sorrows' of love in Cruda legge del mio fato find analogies with those experienced by the composer. The first aria in this cantata is rich in complex enharmonics, greatly expanded and varied in the repeat, when the voice is engaged in difficult bravura passages. The cantata Abbandonato e solo begins with a veritable monologue from Roman emperor Nero, tormented by his past ghosts. The cantata on this album by Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756), Pompe, voi che ascondete, although attributed to Corsi's favourite pupil, is in fact still of unproven authorship. It is possible that Giuseppe Corsi met Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632-1692). The two composers in 1685 took part in the famous dispute over parallel fifths in Arcangelo Corelli's Sonata Op.2 No.3. The bass of the violin family, of which Vitali was a virtuoso, was widespread thanks to the Este patronage of Duke Francesco I. In his cantatas, Corsi repeatedly insists on the B flat grave, a characteristic of violin bass tuning, and the numerous semiquaver passages are particularly agile on the violone, so it is not unlikely that the composer from Marsica had this instrument in mind. It is also for this reason that Corsi's compositions have been joined by some movements from the Partite sopra diverse sonatas for the violone by Vitali that are particularly pleasing.
Tracks:
1.1 *** Dalle balze sicane, TriCo 58
1.2 I. Recitative: Dalle balze sicane
1.3 II. Aria: Giove tiranno
1.4 III. Recitative: Anneriscon le sfere
1.5 IV. Aria: Cieli ingrati
1.6 V. Recitative: Disseta pur lo sdegno
1.7 VI. Aria: Li ciechi abissi
1.8 VII. Recitativo: Tacete, alme
1.9 VIII. Aria: Agl'urli tremanti
1.10 IX. Aria: Son sorde a danno mio
1.11 *** Cruda legge del mio fato, TriCo 57
1.12 I. Aria: Cruda legge del mio fato
1.13 II. Aria: Mi stracciano le pene
1.14 III. Recitativo: Ma non lice al mio core
1.15 IV. Aria: Se con note di gioia
1.16 V. Recitative: Ed in stato infelice
1.17 Vi. Aria: Così confondano
1.18 VII. Recitative: Pianger non posso
1.19 VIII. Aria: Cruda legge
1.20 IX. Recitative and Aria: Or s’è pena il tacer
1.21 Toccata
1.22 Ruggiero
1.23 Bergamasco
1.24 Chiacona
1.25 Me lo volete dire?, TriCo 63a
1.26 *** Abbandonato e solo, TriCo 49
1.27 I. Recitative: Abbandonato e solo
1.28 II. Aria: Quella morte che per gioco
1.29 III. Recitative: Ma che miro!
1.30 V. Aria: Vieni pur
1.31 V. Recitative: Ma no. Merta Nerone
1.32 VI. Aria: Contro l'armi dell'inganno
1.33 *** Partite sopra diverse Sonate per il violone
1.34 Capritio sopra ono figure
1.35 Capritio sopra li cinque tempi
1.36 Passa Galli
1.37 *** Pompe voi che ascondete
1.38 I. Recitative: Pompe, voi che ascondete
1.39 II. Aria: Perch'io tema bastanti voi siete
1.40 III. Aria: Nel profondo cieco mondo
