{"product_id":"morte-e-sepoltura-di-christo","title":"MORTE E SEPOLTURA DI CHRISTO","description":"With Antonio Caldara's Morte e sepoltura di Christo,  released on Glossa just after a new album devoted  to Vivaldi's late violin concertos, Fabio Biondi  returns to the Italian oratorio, another of his  specialities. The Venetians Caldara and Vivaldi may  have been contemporaries but their career paths  led them in different directions, and Caldara was  to spend much time working in Mantua and Rome  before securing the position of vice-Kapellmeister  for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in Vienna.  For the last twenty years of his life Caldara produced  copious quantities of oratorios (and operas), adding  a rich sense of counterpoint and making use of  the broad orchestral colouring offered by the varied  instruments available to him at the Imperial court.  Composed for the Lenten season in 1724, Morte  e sepoltura follows the typical two-part scheme of  the time, to a text comprising a series of reflections  as from personages involved in some way in the  events of the Passion of Christ. Notable is the  profusion of solo arias with obliggato instrumental  parts.  Fabio Biondi's recording, with a team of soloists led  by Maria Grazia Schiavo and Silvia Frigato, also  includes other echoes of Caldara's Italian past - a  pair of motets and instrumental music (a Vivaldi  Sonata also makes an appearance) -, and he directs  the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, with which he  has worked so successfully in the Norwegian  orchestra's early music programme since 2006. The  album also contains an exemplary essay by the  leading Caldara scholar Brian W Pritchard.","brand":"GLOSSA","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":46129754669290,"sku":"8424562234031","price":32.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/3423\/3066\/files\/2855159.jpg?v=1783445449","url":"https:\/\/arkivmusic.com\/products\/morte-e-sepoltura-di-christo","provider":"ArkivMusic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}