Feel the Blues with all that Jazz
English (United Kingdom)Polish (Poland)
Home Classical Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La Morte di San Giuseppe (1990)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La Morte di San Giuseppe (1990)

User Rating: / 0
PoorBest 

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - La Morte di San Giuseppe (1990)

Image could not be displayed. Check browser for compatibility.

CD1
1. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Sinfonia 
2. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Tra le angustie beate 
3. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Sono spirito immortale 
4. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Michele, il fianco antico 
5. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Se a un sì bel foco 
6. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Candido amato giglio 
7. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Morono le fenici 
8. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. More alfine Giuseppe 	
9. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Appena spira 
10. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Morte, invidia gentil d'ogni altra vita... 	
11. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Gradite ferite 	
12. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Di morte no, d'amor è la ferita 	
13. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Non può chi tutto può 
14. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Ai dolcissimi affanni 	
15. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Pellegrin ch'in folto orror 		play
16. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Sposa... 
17. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Duetto. Il Signor vuol ch'a me solo 
18. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Recitativo. Ad accenti sì bei muto son io 
19. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 1. Aria. Dolce auretta ch'alletta, che piace

CD2
1. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Vegg'io la morte, o sposa... 	
2. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Aria. E può rinascere 	
3. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Sposa, vegg'io la morte 	
4. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Aria. Pastorello in mezzo ai fiori 	
5. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Ed ora o quanto lieto... 	
6. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Aria. Vola intorno al primo raggio 		play
7. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Cedendo intanto a morte 
8. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Trio. Intanto chiudi i lumi 	
9. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Degne al par degl'incendi 	
10. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Lungi da te, lungi dal caro bene 	
11. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Aria. L'ardor che cresce in seno 
12. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Reina, il tuo Giuseppe 	
13. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Aria. Potessi esser mortale 	
14. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Recitativo. Sacra Clizia amorosa 	
15. La finice sul rogo (La morte di San Giuseppe), oratorio in 2 acts: Part 2. Quartetto. Se 
Giuseppe così more

San Giuseppe - Michele Farrugia
Maria Santissima - Bernadette Manca Di Nissa
San Michele - Maria Amgeles Peters
Amor Divino - Patrizia Pace

Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti di Napoli
della Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana
Marcello Panni - conductor, 1990

 

La morte di San Giuseppe (The Death of St. Joseph) is a fascinating curiosity from the pen of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the Italian composer of La serva padrona -- the little intermezzo through which the irreverent breezes of Mozartian opera first blew. This recording is a world premiere of La morte di San Giuseppe, which was known to scholars through fragmentary manuscripts in European libraries but for which a full autograph manuscript only recently surfaced. Designated as an oratorio, the work depicts the death of Joseph, husband of Mary. It features three characters in addition to Joseph, a tenor; St. Michael and Divine Love, both sopranos; and Mary, a contralto. Very little happens other than Joseph's death; the work is something like a 90-minute cantata that meditates on death rather than an oratorio with implied action. Musically the work resembles the opera seria of the time; it consists of a long series of da capo (ABA-structured) arias with a few duets, all growing progressively more athletic as the oratorio proceeds. There is no chorus.

The work's fascination derives largely from the fact that Pergolesi, in part because of the libretto he was given to work with, did not devise a musical language specific to the sacred oratorio, as did Handel, for example. Instead, we are treated to a scene in the life of Christianity's first family, rendered in purely operatic musical and textual language. It is novel to hear St. Michael sing of the dying Joseph as "pleasantly restless in an ecstasy of love," to give one of the many operatic notions that occur throughout. The arias are elegantly fiery, and at its best (which is quite fine but not on the level of Pergolesi's similar but tighter Stabat mater) the work offers something of an Italian counterpart to the Italianate passion Bach applied to Lutheran texts. The work, in places, movingly depicts the feeling of what would in another time and place be called being half in love with easeful death.

Unfortunately, this live recording is not the right one to introduce this oratorio to the world. The problem is not that the singers perform in modern rather than Baroque style; Pergolesi's music looks forward 50 years and can stand up to that. But the small orchestra, and a continuo group made up of historical instruments, makes it hard on the vocalists, who struggle unsuccessfully to scale their singing down to chamber size. They don't hit pitches squarely, and the quiet high notes Pergolesi writes in his demanding da capo arias often come out squeaky indeed. The Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti di Napoli sounds good but is mismatched to the vocal forces, demonstrating once again that both modern and historically oriented performances of Baroque music are fine, but attempts to hybridize the two rarely succeed. A well-done performance of this work could carve out a place for it on concert stages and recordings.

download: uploaded yandex 4shared mediafire solidfiles mega filecloudio nornar ziddu

back

Last Updated (Tuesday, 11 March 2014 21:24)

 

Before downloading any file you are required to read and accept the
Terms and Conditions.

If you are an artist or agent, and would like your music removed from this site,
please e-mail us on
abuse@theblues-thatjazz.com
and we will remove them as soon as possible.


Polls
What music genre would you like to find here the most?
 
Now onsite:
  • 343 guests
Content View Hits : 228335374