Composer: Marianna Martines
Performer: Marianna Herzig, Nele Gramss, Christian Havel, Roland Faust, Salzburger Hofmusik
Conductor: Wolfgang Brunner
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 777985-2
Release: 2021
Size: 444 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Psalm 110
01. I. Dixit Dominus
02. II. Virgam virtutis
03. III. Tecum principium
04. IV. Juravit Dominius
05. V. Dominus a dextris
06. VI. Gloria Patri
Symphony in C Major
07. I. Allegro con spirito
08. II. Andante ma non troppo
09. III. Allegro spiritoso
Psalm 115
10. I. Come le limpide onde
11. II. Io qui mi pasco intanto
12. III. A cosi indegni accenti
13. IV. Ah! Che di nuove il piede
14. V. Cosi consolo almeno
15. VI. Qui sono in mar turbato
16. VII. Ascolta i prieghi, ascolta
17. VIII. Ma nell’ avversa sorte
During her lifetime Marianna Martines was a highly regarded composer. In 1772, for example, the English music historian Charles Burney praised her ‘very well written’ compositions, her keyboard artistry asmasterly,’ and her own person as a singer who was ‘more perfect than any singer I had ever heard.’ Pietro Metastasio, her mentor, valued her talent and art just as very much as did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who frequently participated in her ‘musical evening entertainments.’ With these evenings, which were held
‘at least once a week’, she exercised a considerable influence on Vienna’s music life. The cantata ‘Dixit Dominus’ after Psalm 110 represents something like this composer’s visiting card. She applied for admission to the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna with it and became the first woman ever to be accepted to this elite circle of internationally renowned musicians. Although the cantata primarily bears the imprint of Italian Early Classicism, it juxtaposes contrapuntal work in the old style with galant and empfindsam elements in keeping with those times, and her instrumentation of it is richly varied and colorful. The sacred cantata ‘Come le limpide onde’ was the starting point for the present recording because it contains as a special feature two arias with an obbligato part for salterio (the Baroque forerunner of today’s dulcimer). A stirring ‘Storm-and-Stress’ symphony by Marianna Martines rounds off this CD.