Alessandro Scarlatti: Passio Secundum

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Ricercar
Release Date
March 24, 2017
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      SCARLATTI ALESSANDRO
    • PERFORMER
      Choeur De Chambre De Namur, Millenium, Alarcon
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 24, 2017
    • UPC
      5400439003781
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      RIC378
    • LABEL
      Ricercar
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Plange quasi virgo

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    2. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi (Testo)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    3. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Plange quasi virgo

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    4. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: In illo tempore egressus est (Testo, Christus, Turba)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli, Salvo Vitale

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    5. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Ecce vidimus eum

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    6. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: Sequebatur autem Jesum Simon Petrus (Testo, Ancilla, Petrus, Judaeus, Christus, Turba)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli, Caroline Weynants, Pierre Derhet, Maxime Melnik, Salvo Vitale

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    7. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Omnes amici mei

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    8. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: Adducunt ergo Jesum a Caipha (Testo, Pilatus, Turba, Christus)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli, Guillaume Houcke, Salvo Vitale

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    9. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Vinea mea electa

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    10. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: Hunc ergo titulum multi Judaeorum (Testo, Turba, Pilatus, Christus)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli, Guillaume Houcke, Salvo Vitale

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    11. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: O vos omnes

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    12. Passio domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem: Judaei ergo, quoniam parasceve erat (Testo)

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Millenium Orchestra

      Performer: Giuseppina Bridelli

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón

    13. Responsori per la Settimana Santa: Aestimatus sum

      Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

      Ensemble: Chœur de Chambre de Namur

      Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón


Alessandro Scarlatti's St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages. The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo Garc�a Alarc�n inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti's Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practiced by this composer.