Giacomo Carissimi: Historia Di Jephte/Motets

For its sixth album on the Arcana label, Voces Suaves presents a programme dedicated to one of the most influential composers of the seventeenth century, the great Giacomo Carissimi. The album features Carissimi’s most famous work, the masterful oratorio Jephte, alongside two of his rarely performed virtuoso motets. It also includes the astonishingly theatrical Cristo smarrito, by Domenico Mazzocchi, Carissimi’s contemporary in Rome. The works on the album showcase the expressive power of Carissimi’s musical language, as well as the remarkable virtuosity of the singers who originally performed his music. Instrumental interludes by Carissimi – found in the collection of his pupil Marc-Antoine Charpentier - have been interpolated into the score of Jephte, creating a unique version of the oratorio as it may have been performed in Rome during the composer’s lifetime.

1: Symphonia - Cum Vocasset in Proelium
2: Transivit Ergo Jephte
3: Fugite, Cedite Impii
4: Incipite in Tympanis
5: Cantemus Omnes Domino
6: Symphonia - Cum Vidisset Jephte
7: Heu Mihi! Filia Mea
8: Plorate Colles
9: Symphonia
10: Plorate Filii Israel
11: Annunciate Gentes
12: In Domino Spes Nostra Semper Est
13: Quid Confiditis in Potentia?
14: Sospirava E Spargea
15: Oh Dio, Chi Mi Nasconde
16: Dinne, O Vergine Bella
17: Vergine, a Che Ti Lagni
18: Chi Potria Dir La Festa
19: O Quam Dilecta Sunt
20: Ecce Ad Mensam Dolcissimi Convivii Tui
21: Domine Deus Meus
22: O Salutaris Hostia
23: Ave Jesu Dulcissime

Composer: Domenico Mazzocchi, Giacomo Carissimi

Conductor: Michele Vannelli

Number of Discs: 1

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