Composer: Goffredo Petrassi
Performer: Sabina Cvilak, Torino Teatro Regio Chorus
Orchestra: Torino Teatro Regio Orchestra
Conductor:
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Chandos
Release: 2013
Size: 852 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Magnificat
01. Magnificat anima mea Dominum
02. Et exultavit spiritus meus
03. in Deo salutari meo
04. Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae
05. Quia fecit mihi magna
06. et sanctum nomen ejus
07. Et misericordia ejus
08. Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
09. Deposuit potentes de sede
10. Esurientes implevit bonis
11. Suscepit Israel puerum suum
12. Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
13. Gloria Patri, et Filio
Psalm IX
Part I
14. Confitebor tibi Domine
15. Quoniam fecisti judicium meum
16. Increpasti gentes
17. Inimici defecerunt frameae in fine
18. et civitates eorum dextruxisti
19. Et Dominus in aeternum permanet
20. Et factus est Dominus refugium pauperi
21. Et sperent in te
Part II
22. Psallite Domino qui habitat in Sion
23. vide humilitatem meam de inimici mei
24. exultabo in salutari tuo
25. Cognoscetur Dominus judicia faciens
26. Convertantur peccatores in infernum
27. Quoniam non in finem oblivio
28. Exurge, Domine
29. Constitue, Domine, legislatorem super eos
Recorded: 5-7 July 2012
Recording Venue: Teatro Regio, Torino, Italy
This recording forms part of our ongoing Italian series, fronted by the conductor Gianandrea Noseda. In the series so far, we have examined the music of many prominent Italian composers of the twentieth century, such as Respighi, Wolf-Ferrari, Casella, and Dallapiccola, as well as the great nineteenth-century master, Verdi. Noseda and his Italian forces here turn to the choral works of Goffredo Petrassi, an Italian composer who, despite being a relatively late bloomer, developed into one of Italy’s most significant composers of the mid- to late twentieth century.
In the English-speaking world, his contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola may be better known, but Petrassi was just as highly regarded in his home country. His music, inspired by Stravinsky and Hindemith, is dynamic and colourful, although perhaps emotionally reserved by the standards of his countrymen.
Petrassi’s talents showed themselves early. In 1913, aged nine, he became a chorister in the capital, where his encounter with Renaissance and baroque art and music left a lasting impression, one reflected later in several fine, large-scale choral works in which Petrassi combines polyphony with modern harmonies.
Here we have two such choral pieces: Psalm IX, in two parts, for chorus, string orchestra, brass, percussion, and two pianos, and the premiere recording of a Magnificat for soprano, chorus, and orchestra.
Both are performed by the Orchestra and Chorus, Teatro Regio, Torino under their Music Director, Gianandrea Noseda, for entirely idiomatic interpretations. Since he became an exclusive artist with Chandos in 2002, Noseda has recorded works by Prokofiev, Karłowicz, Dvořák, Smetana, Shostakovich, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Mahler, and Bartók, as well as the Italian series discussed above.