Composer: Giovanni Battista Casali
Performer: Costanzi Consort
Conductor: Peter Leech
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC0429
Release: 2023
Size: 504 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Confitebor tibi
02. Comedetis carnes
03. Adiuva nos, Deus
04. Improperium expectavit
05. Tantum ergo
06. Christum Regem adoremus
07. Ad te levavi
08. Ave Maria a 4
09. Exaltabo te
10. Hodie nobis de caelo
11. Quem vidistis pastores
12. Constitues eos
13. Ave Maria a 8
14. Justus ut palma
15. Scapulis suis
16. Caro mea, vere est cibus
17. Haec dies
Confitebor in D Major
18. I. Memoriam fecit
19. II. Gloria Patri
The history of music-making in Rome tends to focus on Renaissance polyphony, with an occasional nod to the Baroque thereafter. But thanks to composers like Giovanni Battista Casali (1715–92), choral music continued to flourish in Roman churches and other religious establishments in the eighteenth century, too, until Napoleon’s occupation broke many of its traditions. Casali’s music, though, is as good as unknown, and this pioneering recording reveals a composer at home in the galant style – with a surprising fondness for the occasional dissonance.