Legrenzi: La morte del cor penitente

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Giovanni Legrenzi
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Masques
    • PERFORMER
      Olivier Fortin, Raffaele Giordani, Cristina Fanelli, Hana Blazikova, William Shelt
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 09, 2023
    • UPC
      3760014199752
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA975
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: Sinfonia

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    2. Part I: Lumi, dolenti lumi (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    3. Part I: Sommergete dell' alma l'orgoglio (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    4. Part I: Care amate pupille (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    5. Part I: Ma voi risponderete che (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    6. Part I: Pianga sì, che del fallir passato (Penitenza, Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    7. Part I: Ah sì quest' è la lingua (Peccatore, Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    8. Part I: Clementissimo cielo, ancor si serba (Peccatore, Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    9. Part I: Dillo tù, cor delirante (Peccatore, Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    10. Part I: Deh senti misero (Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    11. Part I: Piacer ti rifiuto (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    12. Part I: Sù spirti pentiti (Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    13. Part I: Non si pensi, ch'a languir (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    14. Part I: Nò nò tempra il furor (Speranza, Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Hana Blažíková, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    15. Part I: Se sperare il core non sà (Speranza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Hana Blažíková

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    16. Part I: Come sperar poss'io (Peccatore, Speranza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Hana Blažíková

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    17. Part I: Nò nò le tue lusinghe (Peccatore, Speranza, Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Hana Blažíková, Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    18. Part I: Se del duolo, e non d'amore (Peccatore, Speranza, Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani, Hana Blažíková, Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    19. Part I: Or và, figlio costante (Penitenza)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    20. Part I: Termini il viver mio col penar solo (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    21. Part I: Porta ancor nel ferire

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli, Hana Blažíková, William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    22. Part II: Sinfonia

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    23. Part II: Coltello di dolore (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    24. Part II: Siam quì pronte (Coro di pene, Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    25. Part II: Sù sù si mandino (Una della pene, Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    26. Part II: Sì sì dal dolore

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli, Hana Blažíková, William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    27. Part II: Sù sù si destino (Una della pene, Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: William Shelton, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    28. Part II: Non più s'accendano (Una della pene)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    29. Part II: Sì sì dal dolore

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli, Hana Blažíková, William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    30. Part II: Già già da un' improviso (Peccatore)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    31. Part II: Venite alme dolenti

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    32. Part II: Cara morte di dolore

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin

    33. Part II: Hor non ti vantar più divino amore (Tutti)

      Composer: Giovanni Legrenzi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Masques

      Performer: Cristina Fanelli, Hana Blažíková, William Shelton, Manuel Nunez-Camelino, Romain Bockler, Raffaele Giordani

      Conductor: Olivier Fortin


A highly prolific composer, Giovanni Legrenzi practised his art in oratorios and other works for the church, as well as in opera and chamber music. In fact he explored all the musical genres of his period, taking over the baton handed on by Gabrieli and Monteverdi, and enjoying an enviable reputation among his contemporaries. Better known during his lifetime (1626-1690) for his operas rather than for his religious music, Legrenzi was widely admired and copied all over Europe.

Of his eight known oratorios, only three have survived, including this gem: La morte del cor penitente (The Death of the Repentant Heart), a chamber oratorio probably composed in 1671. The theme is the spiritual development of the Sinner, the central figure of the work, who must pay his debt to God to save his immortal soul. The oratorio’s text provides a whole vivid universe of ‘affects’ (emotions) relating to spiritual torments and temptations. In his pilgrimage from the Cross to the heavenly light, beset by the competing voices of Sin and Hope, the Sinner duly makes his repentance, and finally achieves redemption.