Marc´Antonio Ziani: La Morte vinta sul Calvario (Sepolcro, Wien, 1706

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The Sepolcro is a piece of Good Friday music that was only performed in this form by the court chapel at the Habsburg imperial court in Vienna. In order to have splendid music on the festive days despite the ban on opera during Holy Week, oratorios were staged in front of the Holy Sepulchre that dealt theologically and poetically with the Passion of Christ without depicting the Passion itself. In 1706, it was the court kapellmeister Marc'Antonio Ziani who wrote magnificent "opera" music for Good Friday with his Sepolcro "La morte vinta sul Calvario". It features various allegorical figures such as "Faith", "Human Nature" and "The Soul of Adam", who enter into a rhetorical dispute with the "Devil", who rejoices in the death of Christ. Ziani's two-part work alternates between expressive recitatives and arias. The text is of great poetic power, underlined by Ziani's magnificent music, which is very colourful and rich in contrast with five-part string sections accompanied by cornetts, trombones and bassoons, with obligatory instrumental parts and sometimes sophisticated counterpoint.

1: Overture
2: Hò Già Vinto
3: Quel Uom Superbo
4: Morto È L'acerbo
5: Gran Rè D'Averno
6: Chi Fù Detto
7: Egli, Che À Mezzo Il Corso
8: Ei, Che D'essere La Vita
9: Misera Umanità
10: Deh Perchè
11: Duro Cor
12: Cessa Omai
13: Vil Che Sei
14: Empio, Spietata
15: Quel Dolor
16: Ah, Nel Pensar
17: Reo Traditor
18: E Tu Dolce Del Ciel
19: Invan Però
20: Or Lusinghiero
21: Mà Che Miro
22: Fè Il Mio Dio
23: Ei Fè L'uomo
24: Non Spande
25: Ne Sol, Per Trar
26: Cosi Fa Splendor
27: Per Raddoppiare
28: D'un' Infelice
29: Me Fortunata
30: Io Languia
31: Godi Pur
32: Pria Che Due Volte
33: Sorga

Composer: Marc'Antonio Ziani

Conductor: Etienne Meyer

Number of Discs: 1

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