In Festo Angelorum: A journey through Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Baroque music

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Release Date: 28th Aug 2012
Catalogue No: 94428
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 67 minutes

Pagliardi: Ad'arma, ad bella

Work length10:06

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Jose de Vaquedano: Lamentacion

Work length8:42

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$2.60

Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Matribus suis dixerunt

Track length8:42

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Fontana, F: Ricercare No. 11

Work length2:39

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$1.30

Manuel Vilas

Mazzocchi, D: Sonetto

Work length2:44

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Amar a Dios por Dios

Track length2:44

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anon.: In feria sexta. Lectio III (Arquito Distral de Braga, Manuscrito 964)

Work length10:27

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

In feria sexta. Lectio III [Arquito Distrital de Braga, Manuscrito 964]

Track length10:27

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anon.: Italianas ou estrageiras (Arquito Distral de Braga, Manuscrito 964)

Work length5:56

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Manuel Vilas

Italianas ou estrageiras [Arquito Distrital de Braga, Manuscrito 964]

Track length5:56

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anon.: Amavit eum dominus (Arquito Distral de Braga, Manuscrito 964)

Work length6:10

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Amavit eum dominus [Arquito Distrital de Braga, Manuscrito 964]

Track length6:10

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Joseph de Torres: Stetit Angelus

Work length2:13

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

anon.: Tocata on Themes of Corelli

Work length3:18

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Manuel Vilas

Corrente - Giga (18th century, Jaca)

Track length3:18

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Stradella: Al riverito piede

Work length3:58

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Puente: Meninas de Portugal

Work length4:24

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

Giovanni Marciani: Quanta fecisti domine

Work length6:23

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Monica Piccinini, Manuel Vilas

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From the period’s very beginning, a hallmark of Italian Baroque music was its powerful expression of a text’s innermost drama – a characteristic that led to the flourishing of monodic vocal music, which placed a solo voice over a basso continuo accompaniment. As this style spread into sacred music and beyond Italy, composers produced a vast body of works; this new recording journeys through examples from Italy, Spain and Portugal, exploring the colours, styles and characteristics that arose in response to these musical and religious centres’ different traditions. The works featured are diverse, reflecting the wealth of influences that were available to Baroque composers. Pagliardi’s dramatic motet ‘Ad’ arma, ad bella’ bears the fruits of his career as an operatic composer, while Fray José Vaquedano’s two Holy Week Lamentations are highly expressive, particularly striking for their virtuosity. Hispanic influences are clear in Juan Manuel de la Puenta’s tonada ‘Mininas de Portugal’, which depicts a traditional Nativity with Portuguese folk-style touches. There are also three examples from the Santa Maria do Bouro Monastery, near Braga in Portugal, drawn from a manuscript spanning 200 years, and a handful of instrumental works, including Fabrizio Fontana’s Ricercare XI, dedicated to Pope Innocent XI.

Fluid and sophisticated performances by the acclaimed soprano Monica Piccinini and harpist Manuel Vilas highlight the richly varied colours, moods and techniques of these pieces.The collection presents a broad cross section of Baroque music from Italy, Spain and Portugal, and listeners will delight in discovering works by a number of little-known composers.

In Festo Angelorum

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