Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Johannem
Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)
Choeur De Chambre De Namur & Millenium, Leonardo García Alarcón
Recordings of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Passion secundum Johannem are not that common, so...I’m glad to have heard it
Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum Johannem
Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano)
Choeur De Chambre De Namur & Millenium, Leonardo García Alarcón
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Recordings of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Passion secundum Johannem are not that common, so...I’m glad to have heard it
About
Alessandro Scarlatti’s St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages.
The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment.
The version presented by Leonardo García Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti’s Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practised by this composer.
Contents and tracklist
- Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium, Leonardo García Alarcón, Giuseppina Bridelli, Salvo Vitale, Caroline Weynants, Pierre Derhet, Maxime Melnik, Guillaume Houcke
- Recorded: 27 March 2016
- Recording Venue: Live recording, Provinciaal Museum Begijnhofkerk Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Awards and reviews
Early Music Review 31st May 2017
Recordings of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Passion secundum Johannem are not that common, so...I’m glad to have heard it
June 2017
Alarcón paces the narrative in the Passion with a firm eye on colourful dramatisation…Giuseppina Bridelli’s emotive Evangelist and Salvo Vitale’s searing Christus convey poignant characterisations of the Passion text, and the plangent Namur Chamber Choir reveal the polyphonic responses to be the most interesting music on offer
