Cazzati: Motets

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
August 25, 2023
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Maurizio Cazzati
    • PERFORMER
      Ayako Ono, Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 25, 2023
    • UPC
      5028421966632
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96663
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Salve Regina

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Ayako Ono, Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    2. Capriccio sopra sette note in C Major

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    3. Sonata settima la Rossella

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    4. Salvum me fac

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Ayako Ono, Marc Meisel

    5. Sonata duodecima la Strozza

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    6. Sonata 7

      Composer: Giovanni Paolo Colonna

      Performer: Marc Meisel

    7. O caelites

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Ayako Ono, Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    8. Canzone terza la maurizia

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    9. Sonata

      Composer: Bernardo Pasquini

      Performer: Marc Meisel

    10. Qui bella geritis

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Ayako Ono, Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    11. Sonata la tanara

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolf, Christoph Riedo

    12. Corrente Italiana con varie partite

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel

    13. Sonata 18 piena

      Composer: Giulio Cesare Arresti

      Performer: Marc Meisel

    14. Acclamate de terra

      Composer: Maurizio Cazzati

      Performer: Ayako Ono, Christoph Rudolph, Christoph Riedo, Marc Meisel


Sinuously beautiful solo motets by a little-known contemporary of Cavalli, imaginatively programmed with instrumental interludes by their Italian contemporaries.

It has been said before now that Cazzati's instrumental music was more inspired than his sacred-vocal work, but this album demonstrates otherwise with a sequence of motets which evolves from the more liberal style of the 1640s to the more severe style of the late 17th century. He was among the pioneers of the instrumentally accompanied motet in which violin lines are skillfully woven around the sung text. On the other hand, the two solo motets show a stark contrast, with the intimate Salvum me fac against the virtuoso war-like Qui bella geritis.

Three organ sonatas are also included, two of which were written by Cazzati’s own organists in Bologna: Giovanni Paolo Colonn, and Cazzati’s great enemy Giulio Cesare Arresti. A sonata by Bernardo Pasquini affords further contrast with the mostly grave devotions of the motets. All four performers here have extensive experience in the revival of little-known composers from the Baroque, and their stylish performances demand a reappraisal of Cazzati in the round.