Orchestra Barocca Di Cremona & Giovanni Battista Columbro
Release Date: 01 October 2021
Label: Urania Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8051773570766
Description
This is the first modern performance of Father Francesco Antonio Urio's Vespers dedicated to the Virgin Mary as performed on original instruments by the Orchestra Barocca di Cremona.
In seventeenth-century church music, features of the Renaissance tradition (polyphony, modality) coexisted with elements of Baroque innovation (harmony, tonality) and merged into the concertato style. The Salmi Concertati op. II by Father Francesco Antonio Urio included in this Vespers dedicated to the Virgin, follow this transformation with full rights. The Vespers, here in its first modern performance, shows vocal pieces for three voices of rare melodic quality where the imitative style, the counter-point, the modal harmony, the numerous tempo changes, the various melismata and a number of diminutions reveal remarkable compositional ability.
Francesco Antonio Urio was born in Milan around 1650 and passed away after 1719 (Biographical Dictionary of Italians, edited by I. Bettin). His was a life in progress, as it was often the case for Franciscan musicians. He was a novice in Assisi in 1666 (he is known to have corresponded with Vitaliano Borromeo, a noble and appreciated Milanese patron-scholar of the period) and master of the chapel in various Italian cities over the years, including Spello, Urbino, Spoleto, Assisi, Rome, Venice, Turin, Milan. His stays were short initially, then in Assisi he was appointed several times over the years, a tangible sign of his recognized mastery.
Tracklisting
Sviatoslav Richter, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Luigi Chiarizia
Claudio Ronco & Emanuel Vozza
Ensemble Mark Rothko
Furiosi Affetti Ensemble, Lorenzo Gugole, Giorgio Bottiglion
Elena Suliotis, Mario Del Monaco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Orchestra and Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Silvio Varviso
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Francesco Pasqualotto
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
Frieder Bernius, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Hofkapelle Stuttgart
Collegium Cantorum Choir, Janusz Siadlak
Sing in Solidarity, Brass Band of Columbus, and Chris Westover-Munoz
