A. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater/Mottetti

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Thibault Noally and his ensemble here reaffirm their love for and expertise in Alessandro Scarlatti's music as they celebrate his anniversary year with his famous and yet mysterious Stabat mater, a work that displays Scarlatti's more intimate side.In Noally's own words, "this is an extreme example of his stylistic eclecticism. The piece juxtaposes duets in passionate counterpoint with arias in the Neapolitan style, echoes of what he heard around him, as if they formed part of a mosaic. There is no synthesis between the different musical languages; what is most mysterious is that the motets are the musical illustration of a text or an emotion, whilst the Stabat mater requires a completely different approach. The music is no longer directly related to the text. It's as if it had become a world in itself."Noally also presents two Mottetti sacri and a Sonata a quattro, all in the da chiesa style. His collaborators here are soprano Emmanuelle de Negri, a long-time colleague, and Paul Figuier, a highly promising countertenor.

1: Jam Sole Clarior
2: Hic Magnus Ille Nicolaus
3: Inter Undas Fluctuantes
4: Novus Iste Defensor Veritatis
5: Et Forti Animo
6: Infirmata, Vulnerata
7: O Care, O Dulcis Amor!
8: Vulnera, Percute
9: Cur, Quaeso, Crudelis
10: Vicisti Amor, Et Cor Meum Cessit Amor!
11: Semper Gratus
12: Sonata a Quattro No. 1 in F Minor
13: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
14: Cujus Animam Gementem
15: O Quam Tristis Et Afflicta
16: Quae Moerebat Et Dolebat
17: Qui Est Homo Qui Non Fleret
18: Quis Non Posset Contristari
19: Pro Peccatis Suae Gentis
20: Vidit Suum Dulcem Natum
21: Pia Mater, Fons Amoris
22: Sancta Mater, Istud Agas
23: Fac Ut Ardeat Cor Meum
24: Tui Nati Vulnerati
25: Fac Me Vere Tecum Flere
26: Virgo Virginum Praeclara
27: Fac Ut Portem Christi Mortem
28: Inflammatus Et Accensus
29: Fac Me Cruce Custodiri
30: Quando Corpus Est Morietur

Composer: Alessandro Scarlatti

Number of Discs: 1

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