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The Cardinal King – Music for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome 1740-91 (24/96 FLAC)

The Cardinal King - Music for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome 1740-91 (24/96 FLAC)
The Cardinal King – Music for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome 1740-91 (24/96 FLAC)

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Composer: Sebastiano Bolis, Giovanni Battista Costanzi, Niccolò Jommelli, Carlo Tessarini, Giovanni Zamboni
Performer: Cappella Fede, Harmonia Sacra
Conductor: Peter Leech
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0300
Release: 2016
Size: 1.23 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

Bolis: 5 Assoluzzione
01. No. 1. Subvenite sancti
02. No. 2. Qui Lazzarum resuscitasti
03. No. 5. Libera me Domine

04. Bolis: Jesu quaeritis Nazarenum
05. Zamboni: Splende fredda luna
06. Zamboni: O memorie funeste
07. Costanzi: Ave Maria
08. Zamboni: O come se’ gentile
09. Bolis: Laudate pueri Dominum
10. Bolis: Miserere

Tessarini: Allettamento terzo
11. I. Adagio
12. II. Allegro
13. III. Allegro

14. Jommelli: Oculi omnium

Tessarini: Allettamento secondo
15. II. Andante

16. Zamboni: Feritevi, ferite
17. Bolis: Letanie della Madonna Santissima

Everyone has heard of ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’, but almost no one knows that his younger brother, Henry Benedict Stuart (1725–1807), grandson of King James II of England and VII of Scotland and the last in the direct line of Jacobite succession, was a major figure in the hierarchy of the Vatican, and an important patron of the arts.


This album presents the hitherto forgotten repertoire composed by the many musicians associated with, and employed by, Henry Benedict.


Sitting on the cusp of the Baroque and the Classical, these pieces likewise tread a delicate path between innocence and grandeur, between charm and formality, and suggest that the Cardinal, for all his power, may have been a rather gentle man.


Little of the music of these five composers has been recorded – this is yet another area where the partnership between musicologist-musicians and Toccata Classics is throwing light on unknown corners of the repertoire.

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