Melani: Concerti Spirituali

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
December 6, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MELANI, ALESSANDRO
    • PERFORMER
      I Musici Del Gran Principe
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 06, 2019
    • UPC
      5028421959702
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95970
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ad arma cor meum

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    2. Peccantem me quotidie

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    3. Cantemus Domino

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    4. Eia in arma

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    5. O felix anima

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    6. Fallaci cum sono

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    7. Quid dormis

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    8. Derelinquat impius

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    9. Congregate cætum

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    10. Ecce salus

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    11. Salve superum Regina

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    12. Alma Redemptoris

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    13. Salve Mater et Regina

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    14. Spirate zeffiri

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    15. Quæ est ista

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    16. Justus ut palma

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    17. Date voces pueri

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci

    18. Recolite memoria

      Composer: Alessandro Melani

      Ensemble: I Musici del Gran Principe

      Conductor: Samuele Lastrucci


Brilliant Classics has long been renowned for reviving little-known figures from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. Little enough is now known about Alessandro Melani, and his music has almost been forgotten, but this beautifully prepared collection of his religious music should go some way to reviving his reputation. Born in 1639 in the city of Pistoia to the cathedral's bell-ringer, the youngest of seven sons, Alessandro Melani undertook his musical apprenticeship at the cathedral before taking up directorships in grander Italian cities. A move to Rome in 1667 changed his career and established his reputation; he came under the patronage of the Medici family, and published three collections of sacred music. The last of them now receives it's first-ever complete recording. This is Baroque vocal chamber music at once sombre and sumptuous, reverent and yet richly decorated like the basilicas where Melani worked. Marian hymns, penitential psalms and liturgical propers all receive lavish treatments in combinations of two, three and five voices, buttressed in this recording by a five-part continuo accompaniment designed to draw out every one of Melani's luscious harmonies and featuring organ, harpsichord, cello, string bass, archlute and theorbo. The recording is the work of a dynamic young Italian early-music group founded in 2017 and led by the prodigiously talented Samuele Lastrucci, formerly assistant to the mercurial Baroque expert Federico Maria Sardelli. Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the Tuscan-based Da Vinci Baroque Festival; he is presently maestro di capella of the Church of Ss. Michele and Gaetano in Florence.