Legrenzi - Canto & Basso: Vocal & Instrumental Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96006
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 13th December 2019
Contents
Works
Ricercare Sesto. Con due sogettiSonata no.7 del Colonna di Bologna
Albescite flores
Ave Regina coelorum a 2
Hodie collentatur Coeli a 2
Plaudite vocibus
Sonata a 2 'La Colloreta'
Sonata a 2 'La Donata'
Sonata a 2 'La Foscari'
Suspiro Domine
Canzona
Sonata no.2 del Pollaroli di Venezia
Artists
Ensemble ZenitWorks
Ricercare Sesto. Con due sogettiSonata no.7 del Colonna di Bologna
Albescite flores
Ave Regina coelorum a 2
Hodie collentatur Coeli a 2
Plaudite vocibus
Sonata a 2 'La Colloreta'
Sonata a 2 'La Donata'
Sonata a 2 'La Foscari'
Suspiro Domine
Canzona
Sonata no.2 del Pollaroli di Venezia
Artists
Ensemble ZenitAbout
Born in 1626, Legrenzi was a native of the Marches region of northern Italy who made his career as an organist first in Bergamo and then the more cosmopolitan city of Ferrara, where he became maestro di cappella of the Accademia dello Spirito Santo in 1656. The music on this album dates from the following two decades, when despite professional frustrations his work was fired with tireless compositional élan. He began to perfect the style of the instrumental sonata and to favour the non-concertato vocal repertoire, featuring one or more voices accompanied by basso continuo alone, with collections such as Harmonia d’affetti devoti of 1655, Sentimenti devoti of 1660, Compiete con le Lettanie & Antifone della B.V. of 1662 and Acclamationi divote a voce sola of 1670.
On good stylistic and aesthetic grounds, the musicians of Ensemble Zenit have chosen to play a selection of works from these collections on cornet and trombone. They intersperse them with four pieces for organ relating to the composer’s periods of work in Bergamo, Ferrara, Bologna and Venice. Legrenzi wrote keyboard sonatas himself, but none has come to light, so Ensemble Zenit features four composers who represent each of those four cities: Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665), chapel master in Bergamo until shortly before Legrenzi’s arrival and unquestionably a source of inspiration for the way he structured his Sonate; Luigi Battiferri (1610-1682), Legrenzi’s predecessor as chapel master at the Accademia dello Spirito Santo in Ferrara; Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695), organist in Bologna, and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (1653-1723), who studied under Legrenzi in Venice and was appointed second organist at St. Mark’s just two months after the death of his teacher in 1690.
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