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Melani: Concerti Spirituali
Brilliant Classics

Melani: Concerti Spirituali

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Details

Composer
MELANI, ALESSANDRO
Artist
I Musici Del Gran Principe
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Dec 06, 2019
Catalog #
BRI95970
UPC
5028421959702

About

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.

Tracklist 18 tracks

  1. 1 Ad arma cor meum 07:56
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ad arma cor meum
    Duration
    07:56
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  2. 2 Peccantem me quotidie 05:40
    Track
    2
    Title
    Peccantem me quotidie
    Duration
    05:40
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  3. 3 Cantemus Domino 08:53
    Track
    3
    Title
    Cantemus Domino
    Duration
    08:53
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  4. 4 Eia in arma 11:15
    Track
    4
    Title
    Eia in arma
    Duration
    11:15
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  5. 5 O felix anima 06:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    O felix anima
    Duration
    06:13
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  6. 6 Fallaci cum sono 07:33
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fallaci cum sono
    Duration
    07:33
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  7. 7 Quid dormis 08:15
    Track
    7
    Title
    Quid dormis
    Duration
    08:15
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  8. 8 Derelinquat impius 06:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    Derelinquat impius
    Duration
    06:14
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  9. 9 Congregate cætum 09:17
    Track
    9
    Title
    Congregate cætum
    Duration
    09:17
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  10. 10 Ecce salus 06:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    Ecce salus
    Duration
    06:22
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  11. 11 Salve superum Regina 06:37
    Track
    11
    Title
    Salve superum Regina
    Duration
    06:37
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  12. 12 Alma Redemptoris 05:12
    Track
    12
    Title
    Alma Redemptoris
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  13. 13 Salve Mater et Regina 08:35
    Track
    13
    Title
    Salve Mater et Regina
    Duration
    08:35
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  14. 14 Spirate zeffiri 08:35
    Track
    14
    Title
    Spirate zeffiri
    Duration
    08:35
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  15. 15 Quæ est ista 07:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    Quæ est ista
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  16. 16 Justus ut palma 06:30
    Track
    16
    Title
    Justus ut palma
    Duration
    06:30
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  17. 17 Date voces pueri 07:10
    Track
    17
    Title
    Date voces pueri
    Duration
    07:10
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci
  18. 18 Recolite memoria 06:50
    Track
    18
    Title
    Recolite memoria
    Duration
    06:50
    Composer
    Alessandro Melani
    Ensemble
    I Musici del Gran Principe
    Conductor
    Samuele Lastrucci