Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi
Performer: Nova Ars Cantandi, Ivana Valotti, Alessandro Carmignani
Conductor: Giovanni Acciai
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8579086
Release: 2020
Size: 250 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Compiete con le lettanie & antifone della B.V. à 5 voci, Op. 7
01. No. 1, Compieta à 5
02. No. 2a, Confiteor Deo omnipotenti
03. No. 2b, Converte nos, Deus
04. No. 2c, Cum invocarem
05. No. 2d, In te, Domine, speravi
06. No. 2e, Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi
07. No. 2f, Ecce nunc, benedicite Dominum
08. No. 2g, Te lucis ante terminum
09. No. 2h, In manus tuas, Domine
10. No. 2i, Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine
11. No. 2j, Kyrie, eleison
12. No. 3, Alma Redemptoris mater
13. No. 4, Ave, Regina caelorum
14. No. 5, Regina caeli laetare
15. No. 6, Salve, Regina
Giovanni Legrenzi’s eventual rise to fame can be measured by the fact that both Bach and Handel chose his melodies as themes for their contrapuntal elaborations. Many years earlier, however, as a young composer in Ferrara, Legrenzi wrote Compiete (“Compline” in English) which constitutes the final moment of prayer in the monastic or secular day. It is a work of dazzling beauty that shows a mature, conscious mastery of the most up-to-date compositional techniques of Legrenzi’s time in the ‘nuova musica’, and fully honors Monteverdi’s precedent in ensuring music serves the text in all its richness and variety.