Our newest CD release on Dorian Records:
Passion & Lament: Choral Masterworks of the 17th Century
Salamone Rossi (c.1570–c.1628)
Settings from Hashirim asher lish’lomo (“The Songs of Solomon”)
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1664–1704)
Stabat Mater [after 1690] (première recording)
Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
Historia di Jephte [c.1650]
Jennifer Ellis Kampani, soprano (Fillia)
Barbara Hollinshead, alto (Historicus)
Tony Boutté, tenor (Jephte)
Sumner Thompson, baritone (Historicus)
THE BACH SINFONIA & SINFONIA VOCI
Daniel Abraham, conductor/music & artistic director |
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| Singers and instrumentalists join forces for this recording of the The Bach Sinfonia and Sinfonia Voci’s performance of Biber’s Stabat Mater, a work music director Daniel Abraham prepared from original manuscripts for the modern concert première in May 2008. In addition to this forgotten masterwork of the 17th century, this recording offers the rare opportunity to explore six of Rossi’s radiant polyphonic Hebrew settings from Hashirim asher lish’lomo (1623), the composer’s important offering of choral compositions for the standard Jewish liturgy. Carissimi’s beautiful oratorio Historia di Jephte, the first true masterwork in the genre, tells the Old Testament story of Jephte, the military General who must uphold his promise and sacrifice his only child, a daughter, as an offering for his victory in battle, rounds out this Dorian recording. The dramatic musical imagery of this early oratorio includes songs of triumph and victory, innocence and praise, and anguish and lament which unfold in stunning solo passages and some of the most stirring choruses in all of the Baroque era.
Order the recording online for $17.95 with FREE shipping and handling or by phone at 301-362-6525.
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G. F. Handel's Alexander's Feast, HWV 75
J. S. Bach's Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127
Amanda Balestrieri, soprano
Scot Cameron, tenor
David Newman, bass-baritone
The Bach Sinfonia and Handel Choir of Baltimore
Daniel Abraham, conductorReleased December, 2006; Dorian Records; DSL-20604 This period instrument recording is the first CD release of either work by an American ensemble or conductor. Along with the magnificent Alexander's Feast by Handel, the two CD set also represents one of the first recordings of the aria Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127 by J.S. Bach, a work which was recently discovered on May 17, 2005 in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library of Weimar, Germany by musicologist Michael Maul. The aria was the first unknown work by J.S. Bach to surface in more than seventy years.
Order the 2-CD recording online for $28.95 with FREE shipping and handling or by phone at 301-362-6525.Read reviews of this CD (opens in new window):
Early Music America, Fall 2007
Choral Journal, September 2007 |
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