Mortale, Che Pensi?
Mortale, che pensi? Nero, Zaida, Mater Euryali, Armida, the Blessed Virgin, Mary Magdalene Giacomo Carissimi Luigi Rossi Domenico Mazzocchi Marco Marazzoli Alessandro Stradella ATALANTE Erin Headley Katherine Watson, Nadine Balbeisi, Theodora Baka, Samuel Boden, Julian Podger, Christian Immler ‘Truly revelatory...a milestone…a more powerful and persuasive advocacy www.DestinoClassics.com for these pieces could hardly be imagined.’ DESTINO Worldwide distribution in association with Nimbus Alliance Iain Fenlon, Early Music CLASSICS RELIQUIE DI ROMA III: Mortale, che pensi? 1 Mortale, che pensi? (KW NB SB) Luigi Rossi (1597–1653) 4:11 Rome, Vatican Library, Barb. lat. 4200 narrowed. The unfolding tonal spectrum at the closing of the Magdalene’s lament reflects the 2 Deh, memoria (KW) Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674) 5:49 mixing of her tears with the blood of the wounded Jesus (from F to G# and C# and returning Rome, Vatican Library, Chigi. lat. IV. 18 to F), and offers the listener a rhetorically powerful spiritual transformation. 3 Plorate, filii Israel (inst) Giacomo Carissimi 3:28 Historia di Jephte, Rome 1650 A variation on Mazzocchi’s enharmonic x, the V indicates that a singer should make a messa di voce by increasing volume and pitch together while proceeding to the next note. Both symbols L’Incendio di Roma (Nerone, CI) Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682) are carefully indicated in the two laments at particularly telling moments in the poetry, and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum: Mu. Ms. 44 4 Sopra un’eccelsa torre 3:36 Mazzocchi directs that the singer rigorously observe his indications. 5 Voi, che in soglio di pace adulate sedete 3:30 Mazzocchi seems to have been the voice of reason in a long and labyrinthine tuning saga; his 6 Si, si, viva Nerone 4:02 system is refreshingly practical and manageable.
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