Composer: Johann Simon Mayr
Performer: Andrea Lauren Brown, Virgil Mischok, Markus Schäfer
Orchestra: Virtuosi Italiani
Conductor: Franz Hauk
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2018
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mayr: Regina coeli in G major
Mayr: Exsurge, anima in D major
02. Recitativo. Exsurge, anima
03. Aria. Redi, spes amata
04. Aria. Laetabunda exsultabis
05. Mayr: Salve Regina in F
Mayr: Me miserum, quid hoc in C minor
06. Recitativo. Heu, qualis horror
07. Aria. Aurae placidae spirate
08. Aria. Quo fugisti desolata
09. Aria. Concentu harmonico late exultando
10. Mayr: Salve Regina in B flat major
Mayr: O Deus, quot me circumdant in E flat major
11. Recitativo. O Deus, quot me circumdant
12. Aria. A reo languor oppressus
13. Aria. Grato murmure spirando
14. In dulci jubilo
15. Mayr: Salve Regina in C
16. Mayr: Qual colpa eterno Dio in C minor
Recorded: 23-26 April 2014
Recording Venue: Asamkirche Maria de Victoria, Ingolstadt, Germany
Johann Simon Mayr became one of the most popular opera composers in Europe in the period preceding Rossini, but his younger career in the last decades of the 18th century was largely as a church musician, dividing his time between his native Bergamo and Venice. Often taking the form of small-scale religious operas, his Venetian solo motets were tailor-made for the singers of the day, with notable results, as can be heard in the soaring expressiveness of ‘Exsurge, anima,’ the cavatina-style melodies of ‘O Deus, quot me circumdant,’ and the contrasting atmospheres of fear, dread and serenity in ‘Qual colpa eterno Dio.’ Franz Hauk is the world’s leading expert and exponent of the music of Johann Simon Mayr, and his numerous new editions and recordings of operatic and other vocal works by this composer is internationally recognized as highly significant: “Naxos’s project of recording the major works of Simon Mayr is an extremely important event, introducing to most of us a composer of genuine individuality and importance.” (Fanfare on the cantata Arianna in Nasso) All of the soloists here have a close association with Franz Hauk’s Simon Mayr project, and each have successful performing and recording careers.