Marcello: Psalms (Sung in English)

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Label
Signum Classics
Release Date
September 11, 2015
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MARCELLO, BENEDETTO
    • PERFORMER
      Voces8, Inventions
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 11, 2015
    • UPC
      635212039120
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SIGCD391
    • LABEL
      Signum Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Psalm 11 (sung in English)

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: VOCES8, Les Inventions

      Performer: Barnaby Smith, Dingle Yandell

      Conductor: Patrick Ayrton

    2. Psalm 32 (sung in English)

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: VOCES8, Les Inventions

      Performer: Barnaby Smith, Charles MacDougall, Dingle Yandell

      Conductor: Patrick Ayrton

    3. Sonata in F Major, Op. 2, No. 12: IV. Ciaccona

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: Les Inventions

      Conductor: Patrick Ayrton

    4. Psalm 50 (sung in English)

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: VOCES8, Les Inventions

      Performer: Emily Dickens, Barnaby Smith, Dingle Yandell

      Conductor: Patrick Ayrton

    5. Psalm 46 (sung in English)

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: VOCES8, Les Inventions

      Performer: Barnaby Smith, Dingle Yandell

      Conductor: Patrick Ayrton

    6. Canon: In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum

      Composer: Benedetto Marcello

      Ensemble: VOCES8

      Conductor: Barnaby Smith


VOCES8 and Les Inventions shine a light on a hidden musical treasure in these world-premiere recordings of Charles Avison’s 1757 adaptation of Benedetto Marcello’s 1724-26 magnum opus Estro-poetico armonico, settings of the first fifty Psalms of David as paraphrased by the poet Girolamo Ascanio Giustiniani. In addition to the subtle deployment of vocal resources, and his imaginative use of musical techniques to illustrate the texts, Marcello brought to these psalms a peculiar quality of freshness and originality that unquestionably contributed to their becoming a major international success, so demonstrated by the work’s rapid translation into many other languages, as well as by the enthusiasm with which these settings were embraced by performers of a variety of religious traditions including Anglican, Lutheran and Jewish.