Durante: Requiem in G Minor / Centemeri, Astrarium Consort

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
April 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DURANTE, FRANCESCO
    • PERFORMER
      Astrarium Consort, Centemeri
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 03, 2020
    • UPC
      5028421960272
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96027
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Requiem

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    2. Kyrie

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    3. Requiem eternam - In memoriam

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    4. Sonata No. 3 per cembalo divisi in studii e divertimenti in C Minor: I. Studio: Fuga

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Performer: Carlo Centemeri

    5. Dies Irae

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    6. Recordare

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    7. Ingemisco tamquam reus

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    8. Confutatis

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    9. Lacrymosa dies illa

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    10. Domine Jesu

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    11. Hostias

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    12. Sanctus

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    13. Benedictus

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    14. Toccata [Naples, 17th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Carlo Centemeri

    15. Agnus Dei

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    16. Lux Eterna

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri

    17. Libera me Domine

      Composer: Francesco Durante

      Ensemble: Astrarium Consort

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Matteo Bellotto, Carlo Centemeri

      Conductor: Carlo Centemeri


The second of three settings that can firmly be attributed to Durante, the G minor Requiem is dated 27 November 1738, by which time the composer was established as a senior figure in the vibrant and fast-moving culture of 18th-century Naples. Durante was a contemporary of Nicolo Porpora and Leonardo Leo, whose Salve Regina settings have been newly recorded on another recent Brilliant Classics album (96092) but they were better known as operatic composers; Durante’s fame and reputation rested then and now on his music for the church, which is noble without ponderousness, moving without sentimentality, elegant without triviality. Compared with other Neapolitans, Durante was not prolific; he strove instead, within the conventions of his age, to strike a popular tone with intimations of the sublime, and he did so by using startling dissonances, expressive use of dynamics, diminished chords and chromaticism. The G minor Requiem demonstrates all these features. It is scored for two four-part choirs, strings and two hunting horns used exclusively in the ‘Tuba mirum’. Even a casual glance at the score shows why Durante was greatly sought after as a counterpoint teacher and also why composers as different in as Pergolesi and Paisiello can be numbered among his pupils. Previous recordings have used large choirs, but performing the Requiem with small forces highlights the madrigalian qualities of Durante’s style, with an emphasis on solo rather than choral lines, as well as achieving much tighter ensemble and more precise intonation. Several of the soloists on this album also featured on the previous Brilliant Classics recording by the Astrarium Consort with their founder/director Carlo Centemeri, of motets by Giovanni Paolo Colonna (94647). ‘Soprano Francesca Cassinari has a particularly appealing sound (for me). Her clear, pure voice serves the music well… The Astrarium Consort has a good ensemble sound.’ (wtju.fm)