Composer: Giovanni Battista Brevi, Antonio Caldara, Giovanni Lorenzo Gregori, Niccolò Jommelli, Nicola Antonio Porpora, Alessandro Stradella, Giuseppe Torelli, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina
Conductor: Ottavio Dantone
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA371
Release: 2017
Size: 1.1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans, RV644
01. Agitata infido flatu
Jommelli: La betulia liberate
02. Prigionier che fa ritorno
Gregori: Concerto grosso No. 2 in D Major, Op. 2
03. I. Grave – Allegro
04. II. Largo
05. III. Allegro
Porpora: In procella sine stella
06. In procella sine stella
07. Jam cerno in meo timore
08. In tenebris horroris
09. Alleluia
Caldara: La Passione di Gesu Cristo
10. Ia. Introduction. Grave
11. Ib. Introduction. Andante
12. Stradella: Et egressus est a filia Sion
Torelli: Lumi dolenti lumi
13. Lumi dolenti lumi
14. Chi pianger non sà
15. Umanità crudele
16. Saette e fulmini che tardan più
Brevi: O Spiritus Angelici
17. O spiritus angelici
18. Potest solum mea tormenta
19. O panis angelorum
20. O liquor quam suavis
21. O fons, sed amoris
22. Alleluia
Delphine Galou is renowned and admired for her musicality and her appealing timbre. She has taken part in many productions of Baroque music and recordings of operas (notably by Vivaldi), but this is her first recital. It is a programme of sacred music, motets, cantatas and excerpts from oratorios, which in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were influenced by the increasingly fashionable genre of opera. From the famous ‘Agitata infido flatu’ from Vivaldi’s oratorio Juditha triumphans, here counterpointed by an aria from another setting of the story of Judith composed by Jommelli, to Stradella’s Lamentations and Porpora’s magnificent motet ‘In procella sine stella’, Delphine Galou covers a wide range of spiritual emotions. She is accompanied by the excellent Accademia Bizantina under its director and harpsichordist Ottavio Dantone. A concerto by Gregori and a sinfonia by Caldara complete this release, which includes several world premiere recordings.