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Pasquini: The Shadow of Solomon - Cantatas for Bass & Continuo / Abadie, Nigito, Capella Tiberina
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Pasquini: The Shadow of Solomon - Cantatas for Bass & Continuo / Abadie, Nigito, Capella Tiberina

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Composer
Bernardo Pasquini
Artist
Capella Tiberina, Alexandra Nigito, Lisandro Abadie, Sam Chapman, Domin Marincic
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
May 27, 2022
Catalog #
BRI95293
UPC
5028421952932

About

Renowned in his day as a virtuoso keyboard player, Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) was the most important Italian composer of keyboard music between Frescobaldi and Domenico Scarlatti. In that capacity his output has output has been surveyed by Brilliant Classics with authoritative collections of his sonatas for harpsichord (94286) and for two organs (94347). However, Pasquini also composed more than 70 cantatas of the concise and dramatic kind written by the young Handel after he arrived in Rome in 1706. By that late stage of his life, Pasquini had held one distinguished post after another in Roman musical life and become known as one of its celebrities, as celebrated for his abilities at the harpsichord as his contemporary Corelli was on the violin. Most of his vocal music remains unpublished, which makes the pioneering efforts of Capella Tiberina in this field especially welcome.

This new recording forms a sequel to their 2013 album of two Passion Cantatas (94225) and makes a powerful case for Pasquini as Rome’s leading dramatic composer of his day. Among Pasquini’s surviving cantatas, the six scored for solo bass stand out, for their keen sense of theatre and expressive rhetoric. They take Biblical history, tales of Roman history and pastoral-erotic tropes for their subjects, and they are imaginatively presented here as a cycle, interleaved with pieces for harpsichord, as though recreating a refined evening of music-making at a Roman palazzo around the turn of the 18th century.

Capella Tiberina is led in these stylish accounts by the harpsichordist Alessandra Nigito, who has made a particular study of Pasquini’s vocal music and edited several of his cantatas for modern publication. There is no more authoritative current exponent of this music, and she is joined here by other experienced performers on Italy’s rich early-music scene.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Toccata in F Major 03:49
    Track
    1
    Title
    Toccata in F Major
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  2. 2 Il fulmine son io 07:44
    Track
    2
    Title
    Il fulmine son io
    Duration
    07:44
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  3. 3 Passagagli in D Minor 02:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    Passagagli in D Minor
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  4. 4 Che volete da me 11:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    Che volete da me
    Duration
    11:24
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  5. 5 Alemanda-Correcte-Giga in G Minor 03:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    Alemanda-Correcte-Giga in G Minor
    Duration
    03:26
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  6. 6 Era risorta invano, "L'ombra di Solimano" 09:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    Era risorta invano, "L'ombra di Solimano"
    Duration
    09:09
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  7. 7 Partite del saltarello 03:02
    Track
    7
    Title
    Partite del saltarello
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  8. 8 Agrippina, compagni, "Germanico" 06:43
    Track
    8
    Title
    Agrippina, compagni, "Germanico"
    Duration
    06:43
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  9. 9 Fantasia in E Minor 02:37
    Track
    9
    Title
    Fantasia in E Minor
    Duration
    02:37
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  10. 10 Misero cor, nascesti solo a Piangere 12:29
    Track
    10
    Title
    Misero cor, nascesti solo a Piangere
    Duration
    12:29
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  11. 11 Versetto V in D Minor 00:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    Versetto V in D Minor
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito
  12. 12 Quei diroccati sassi, "A bella Donna sopra le ruine di Castro" 05:02
    Track
    12
    Title
    Quei diroccati sassi, "A bella Donna sopra le ruine di Castro"
    Duration
    05:02
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Lisandro Abadie, Alexandra Nigito
    Ensemble
    Capella Tiberina
  13. 13 Bizzarria - Variazione 02:07
    Track
    13
    Title
    Bizzarria - Variazione
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Bernardo Pasquini
    Performer
    Alexandra Nigito