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SKU: BA.BVK02137 Five Centuries of Sacred Muisc in San Pietro. Com...(+)
SKU: BA.BVK02137
Five Centuries of
Sacred Muisc in San
Pietro. Composed by
Giancarlo Rostirolla.
Hardback. Volume I + II.
Book. Baerenreiter Verlag
#BVK02137_00. Published
by Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BVK02137). ISBN
9783761821374. 24.5 x
17.5 cm inches. Text
Language:
Italian. One of the
major institutions of
sacred music, the
Cappella Giulia at St.
Peter's Basilica, can
look back on a
five-hundred-year
history. Now Giancarlo
Rostirolla brings this
turbulent and
spellbinding history to
life using original
documents from the Papal
Library and the chapter
archives of Saint Peter
in the
Vatican.
The
Cappella Giulia was
founded by Pope Julius II
in 1513. Its chapel
masters were the most
important representatives
of Roman vocal polyphony,
above all Giovanni
Animuccia and Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina,
Francesco Soriano,
Virgilio Mazzocchi,
Orazio Benevoli, Paolo
Lorenzani and Pietro
Bencini. Also employed
there were such opera
composers as Domenico
Scarlatti, Niccolò
Jommelli and Nicola
Zingarelli, the
proponents of Italian
Cecilianism up to Armando
Renzi, and such renowned
organists as Girolamo
Frescobaldi.
In
this documentary history,
as comprehensive as it is
exciting to read,
Giancarlo Rostirolla pays
tribute to the Cappella
Giulia as a musical
institution of
extraordinary historical
importance and the
vehicle for half a
millennium of sacred
music. For decades the
author, an
internationally acclaimed
authority on Rome's
musical traditions, has
immersed himself like few
others in the church and
chapel archives,
libraries and music
collections of the
Eternal
City.
– For
the first time these two
volumes explore the
history of the Cappella
Giulia with information
on all the musicians
known to have worked
there, together with
their biographies, lists
of compositions and
documents on the chapel's
history.
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| Alma Redemptoris Mater Chorale SATB SATB, Piano [Reduction] GIA Publications
(Loving Mother of Our Saviour). By Francesco Soriano (1549-1620). Edited by John...(+)
(Loving Mother of Our
Saviour). By Francesco
Soriano (1549-1620).
Edited by John Lee. For
SATB Choir and piano
reduction. Ars Antiqua.
Sacred. Easy. 8 pages.
Published by GIA
Publications
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| Lauda Jerusalem. Motet (Roma 1607) for 8-part Choir (SATB-SATB) and Continuo Chorale SATB SATB/SATB (Double) [Conducteur] Ut Orpheus
Choir; Early Music SKU: UT.MS-21A Composed by Francesco Soriano. Edited b...(+)
Choir; Early Music
SKU: UT.MS-21A
Composed by Francesco
Soriano. Edited by
Salvatore Villani. Saddle
stitching. Sacred. Score.
Ut Orpheus #MS 21A.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.MS-21A). ISBN
9790215304819. 8.26 x
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| Lux et Umbra Orchestre à Cordes Editorial de Musica Boileau
String orchestra SKU: BO.B.3292 Composed by Jordi Cervello. Instrumental ...(+)
String orchestra SKU:
BO.B.3292 Composed by
Jordi Cervello.
Instrumental Sets.
Duration 17:35. Published
by Editorial de Musica
Boileau (BO.B.3292).
English
comments: This is
the definitive version of
Biogenesis, a piece that
Cervello had written in
1976, together with his
friend Jorge Wagensberg,
and which was awarded the
First Prize at the
Spanish Ministry for
Education and Science's
Permanent Composition and
Musical Research
Competition. The new
version was made at
1984-85 Lux et umbra is
written for a string
group consisting of four
first and four second
violins, three violas,
three cellos and a double
bass. The conceptual
battle between darkness
and light is represented
by the instability
between the notes B and
C, and by the
compartmentation of the
group of fifteen strings
into divisi that provide
an independent
arrangement for each
instrument, thus
bestowing great substance
upon the texture of the
music. A cello cadence
emerges from a slow and
straightforward
beginning. A process of
contrasts then begins,
culminating in a molto
vivace passage of a
scherzando nature, which
alludes to the Baroque
concerti grossi. The
music once again plays
with chiaroscuro until
reaching its climax, from
which point the
conclusion slowly begins,
establishing itself in
the high register until
fading away. The work was
first performed at
Barcelona's Palau de la
Musica by the English
Chamber Orchestra,
directed by Enrique
Garcia Asensio, in 1987.
That same year, in the
newspaper El Pais, the
observations of the
composer and critic
Francesc Taverna-Bech
paid tribute to the
work's intelligence as
regards the use of and
search for instrumental
resources (in this case,
string instruments, about
which Cervello knows a
great deal), the skill
involved in endowing the
lyrical line with
tension, and a singular
touch that confers formal
essence upon the musical
discourse. In La
Vanguardia, Jordi Llovet
wrote that this is a work
in which, as is the case
with most of Cervello's
compositions, the
listener finds something
covertly religious, a
mysterious secret, a
transcendence linked to
the origins of
communication requiring
more than a single being,
which provides
excitement. In 1990, when
the Orquesta de Granada
(Orchestra of Granada)
performed the work at
Barcelona's Grec
festival, the critic
Cesar Calmell opined, in
the same newspaper, that
inch by inch, surely and
imperturbably, Cervello
built up a perfect world
that reflects the image
of the craftsman who, so
astonished at the
delights of his trade, is
unable to do anything but
turn the very backdrop of
tragedy into something
pleasant. Lux et umbra
was recorded by the
Orchestra Estatal of the
Hermitage, conducted by
Alexis Soriano (CD
SA01210 Fundacion Autor).
--Xavier Casanoves Danes
Music
critic
Comentari
os del Espanol: Se
trata de la version
definitiva de Biogenesis,
obra que habia escrito en
1976 en colaboracion con
su amigo Jorge Wagensberg
y que obtuvo el Primer
Premio, en el ano de su
creacion, en el Concurso
Permanente de Composicion
e Investigacion Musical
del Ministerio de
Educacion y Ciencia. La
nueva version fue
realizada en 1984-85. Lux
et umbra esta escrita
para un grupo de cuerda
integrado por cuatro
primeros violines, cuatro
segundos, tres violas,
tres violoncelos y un
contrabajo. El combate
filosofico entre la
oscuridad y la luz lo
lleva a cabo la
inestabilidad entre las
notas si y do y la
compartimentacion del
grupo de quince cuerdas
en unos divisi que llegan
a una escritura
independiente para cada
instrumento, otorgando
una gran importancia a la
textura sonora. De un
principio lento y
descarnado emerge una
cadencia del violonchelo.
A continuacion da
comienzo un proceso de
contrastes que culmina en
un pasaje molto vivace de
caracter scherzando que
alude a los concerti
grossi del barroco. La
musica juega de nuevo con
el claroscuro hasta
llegar a la cumbre sonora
iniciando el final
lentamente que se instala
en el registro agudo
hasta desvanecerse. La
estreno en el Palau de la
Musica de Barcelona la
English Chamber Orchestra
en el ano 1987 bajo la
direccion de Enrique
Garcia Asensio. Ese mismo
ano, en el periodico El
Pais, el compositor y
critico Francesc
Taverna-Bech reconocia en
sus comentarios la
inteligencia en el uso y
la busqueda de los
recursos instrumentales
-en este caso la cuerda,
de la que Cervello es
profundo conocedor-, la
destreza para revestir de
tension la linea lirica y
un tacto particular para
conferir entidad formal
al discurso sonoro. Jordi
Llovet, en La Vanguardia,
escribia que en esta
obra, se encuentra, como
en la mayor parte de la
produccion de Cervello,
algo secretamente
religioso, un arcano
misterioso, una
trascendencia vinculada a
los origenes de la
comunicacion
impracticable con el ser
unico que resulta
apasionante. En el ano
1990, cuando la Orquesta
de Granada la toco en el
Grec de Barcelona, era el
critico Cesar Calmell
quien, en el mismo
periodico consideraba que
Cervello construyo palmo
a palmo, segura e
imperturbablemente, un
mundo perfecto que
refleja la imagen del
artesano que, de tan
admirado con las delicias
de su oficio, no puede
hacer otra cosa que
convertir en agradable el
fondo mismo de la
tragedia. Lux et umbra
esta grabada por la
Orquesta Estatal del
Hermitage, dirigida por
Alexis Soriano (CD
SA01210 Fundacion Autor).
--Xavier Casanoves Danes
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