Composer: Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Sigismondo d’India, Ivan Moody, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Erik Alfred Leslie Satie
Performer: The Breathtaking Collective, Veronika Skuplik, Matthias Müller, Mieneke van der Velden, Jakob Lindberg, Hana Blažiková, Bruce Dickey, Kris Verhelst
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Passacaille
Catalogue: PAS1091
Release: 2021
Size: 2.62 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Carlo: Panis angelicus (Toccata e mottetto)
02. Carlo: Sicut sponsus matris
03. Carlo: Mater Jerusalem
04. Palestrina: Angelus Domini descendit de caelo a 5
05. India: Videte miraculum – Mottetto concertato a 3
06. Cavalli: Sonata a 3
07. Cavalli: O quam suavis es
08. Wachner, Brook: The Vision of the Archangels
09. Bononcini GB: Il trionfo di Camilla: Overture
10. Bononcini GB: Se Ninfa o Dea tu sei (from Il trionfo di Camilla)
11. Bononcini GB: È pur ver ch’a soffrir (from Il trionfo di Camilla)
12. Bononcini GB: Tutte armate (from Il trionfo di Camilla)
13 .Satie: Trois Melodies – Vêtus de blancs, dans l’azur clair
14. Moody: O Archangels and Angels
15. Bononcini GM: Sonata da chiesa in A Major, Op. 6 No. 5
Scarlatti, Paglia: Comodo Antonino
16. “Coronato di lauri” (Antonino)
17. “Cara e dolce rimembranza” (Antonino)
18. “Il desio di vendicarmi” (Pompeiano)
During the height of its popularity, from the mid-16th century into the 18th, the cornetto was frequently depicted in art as an instrument of angels. Paintings, sculptures, and engravings abound in which the cornetto takes a prominent place among choirs of angelic musicians, usually paired with at least one voice and with other instruments such as the organ, viol, lute, harp, violin and trombone.
For this project Bruce Dickey and Hana Blažíková take the image of angel musicians as a point of departure for an aural journey ranging from 1600 to the present day. From sacred monodies and motets of the early 1600s to opera arias from the end of the century, via a brief diversion to Erik Satie, we arrive at two specially commissioned contemporary works, all the while focussing on the angelic and radiant pairing of the cornetto with the human voice.