Talitha Kumi! La Passione • Otto Cori Rainer Trost • Joan Martín-Royo Coro El León De Oro • Oviedo Filarmonía Friedrich Haider
Ermanno WOLF-FeRRARI TALITHA KUMI! La Passione • Otto cori Rainer Trost • Joan Martín-Royo Coro El León de Oro • Oviedo Filarmonía FRIEDRICH HAIDER WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948) love of Italian Renaissance music and are probably among the testify to his consummate ability to portray characters. Quartina most beautiful works penned by the composer, who was still features music that displays a wistful melancholy which gives Talitha Kumi! (‘Jairus’s Daughter’), Op. 3 • La Passione, Op. 21 · Otto cori, Op. 2 very young at the time. Their counterpoint, which is profoundly voice to the deep attachment he felt throughout his life to his inspired and never academic (Madrigale, Due canti), their grace home city of Venice and the great Carlo Goldoni. At the turn of the 20th century, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876– tipped the balance in favour of him composing smaller- and (Stornello), their bucolic melancholy (Rispetto), but also their 1948) developed a new and individual musical language that larger-scale choral works: in 1897, at the age of 21, he took humour, with its elegant touch of irony (Frottola, Die Lehre), Translation: Susan Baxter revived and regenerated tradition and historical stylistic features. over the direction of a mixed-voice choir in Milan, and probably Throughout his life Wolf-Ferrari, the son of a German father and about the same time he made the acquaintance, in Venice, Rainer Trost an Italian mother, would cling to the power of melody and tonality, of Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi, the director of the Cappella and at a time when modernism was the order of the day, he was Marciana, who would go on to become the ‘Maestro Perpetuo’ The internationally distinguished Mozart tenor Rainer Trost, studied with not afraid to write music that was songlike, lyrical and, in a word, of the choir of the Sistine Chapel.
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