Caldara - Requiem
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Label: Pan Classics
Cat No: PC10296
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 10th February 2014
Contents
Works
Missa DolorosaSonata no.15
Trio Sonatas, op.1
Artists
Daniela Dolci (organ, harpsichord)Musica Fiorita
Conductor
Daniela DolciWorks
Missa DolorosaSonata no.15
Trio Sonatas, op.1
Artists
Daniela Dolci (organ, harpsichord)Musica Fiorita
Conductor
Daniela DolciAbout
Antonio Caldara belongs to the great generation of musicians of the Venetian late Baroque period, born around 1670, in which he and Antonio Lotti excelled in the area of vocal music, Albinoni and Vivaldi in their respective instrumental oeuvres. With an utterly inexhaustible imagination and a profoundly Italian cantabile nature, he also achieved the highest degree of representation of emotions, melodic sweetness, sophisticated dissonance and an operatic element in his sacred works. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Viennese court kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux, Caldara's colleague at the Habsburg court, called him a musician "of great virtù and capacity".
When exactly and for what occasion Caldara composed his Requiem is unclear. The text of the requiem mass certainly inspired him to create music of strong character, reflecting the gloomy, near-death atmosphere of the text. Particularly characteristic is the dark colouring of the instrumental ensemble. Only in the 'Tuba mirum' does Caldara call for two trumpets who proclaim the Last Judgement.
The manuscript of Caldara's Requiem, which has been handed down in an incomplete state, is preserved in Prague National Library. This CD is completed by appropriate chamber music by the composer and excerpts from his late 'Missa dolorosa'.
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