Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Johannette Zomer, Tulipa Consort
Format: DSD64 (iso)
Label: Channel Classics
Release: 2016
Size: 2.83 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Sinfonia in D major RV 125 for strings & b.c.
01. Allegro
02. Adagio
03. Allegro
‘Ascende laeta’ (Introduzione al Dixit) RV 635 for soprano, strings & b.c.
04. Allegro
05. Recitativo
06. Presto
‘Juditha Triumphans’ RV 644 Juditha’s arias
07. ‘Vivat in pace’ for soprano & strings
08. ‘Transit aetas’ for soprano, mandolin & strings
‘O qui coeli terraeque serenitas’ RV 631 for soprano, strings & b.c.
09. Allegro
10. Recitativo
11. Largo
12. Allegro
‘Juditha Triumphans’ RV 644 Vagaus’s aria
13. ‘Umbrae carae’ for soprano, recorders, strings & b.c.
Sinfonia ‘Al Santo Sepolcro’ RV 169 for strings & b.c.
14. Adagio molto
15. Allegro ma poco
‘Laudate pueri’ in C minor RV 600 for soprano, strings & b.c.
16. Allegro
17. Largo
18. Allegro
19. Andante
20. Largo
21. Presto
22. Allegro
23. Largo
24. Allegro
25. Allegro
“For the first CD by the Tulipa Consort I have chosen sacred music by Antonio Vivaldi. The idea occured to me several years ago when I sang his Laudate pueri in Montreal with the cellist Jaap ter Linden. I was moved and impressed by the diversity of this work. Vivaldi is too often associated only with the Four Seasons and the Gloria, while there is so much more. This soon became apparent when I began to compile a programme around Laudate pueri: the somewhat slower pieces in particular, such as the second movement of Laudate pueri, ‘Sit nomen Domine’ and the second aria from RV 631 ‘Rosa quae moritur’, proved to possess great depth and beauty. And we simply had to include the lively ‘Ascende Laeta’, which bubbles and foams with joy. I hope you will enjoy listening to this repertoire just as much as we, the Tulipa Consort, have enjoyed performing it.” Johannette Zomer
The Dutch soprano Johannette Zomer began her studies at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam in 1990 with Charles van Tassel, after having worked as a microbiology analyst for several years. In June 1997 she was awarded her Performance Diploma. Since then she has received coaching by Diane Forlano (London), Claudia Visca (Wuppertal) and Marlena Malas (New York). Her repertoire ranges from medieval music through all music of the baroque and classical eras, including opera, but also Lieder, French Romanticism and Contemporary music. Johannette’s concert appearances are also many and various.
Several years ago Johannette Zomer founded her own ensemble, the Tulipa Consort: “Working with my own ensemble has given me artistic freedom from the very beginning, for by selecting my own repertoire and musicians I feel entirely at home in the music, which greatly benefits the performance.”