Giannettini - L’uomo in bivio
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD923524
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 23rd April 2021
Contents
Artists
Francesca Boncompagni (soprano)Marta Fumagalli (mezzo-soprano)
Massimo Altieri (tenor)
Salvo Vitale (bass)
Cantar Lontano
Conductor
Marco MencoboniWorks
L'uomo in bivio (oratorio in 2 parts)Artists
Francesca Boncompagni (soprano)Marta Fumagalli (mezzo-soprano)
Massimo Altieri (tenor)
Salvo Vitale (bass)
Cantar Lontano
Conductor
Marco MencoboniAbout
Giannettini received his training from Sebastiano Enno, Carlo Grossi and probably from Giovanni Legrenzi in Venice. He worked at St Mark’s Cathedral from 1674, first as a singer and from 1677 as an organist. In 1686 he was appointed maestro di cappella at the court of Modena, a position he was to hold until his death in 1721.
Giannettini wrote about 20 stage works, oratorios, cantatas, masses and other sacred music. The oratorio L’uomo in bivio (The Man at the Crossroads), written in Modena in 1687, has a remarkable theological content: an angel and the devil fight for the soul of a young man.
In the dispute, the devil initially prevails, winning the man over with earthly pleasures and the figure of a lovely girl. But the angel does not give up – with the terrible vision of the girl’s rotting body in an open grave, he induces him to repent, and the man chooses the path of faith. The Devil goes back to hell, and the doors of Paradise are open for a happy end.
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