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Composer:
Francesco Conti

Artist(s):
Marijana Mijanovic
Simone Kermes

Conductor:
Alan Curtis

Background: With this recording Alan Curtis and Il Complesso Barocco unearth yet more Baroque gems. Francesco Bartolomeo Conti's David is a masterly work, highly dramatic and musically inventive. This studio recording uses Alan Curtis' own edition of the score.

Francesco Bartolomeo Conti was born in Florence in 1681. Conti was a virtuoso theorbist and composer and between 1714 and 1725 provided most of the operas for the Viennese carnival season, mostly to librettos by Pariati and Apostolo Zeno. Zeno was responsible for the libretto of the oratorio (or 'Azione sacra' sacred drama) David, first performed in 1724.

David tells the story of David and Saul, covering very much the same ground as Handel's magnificent Saul written fifteen years later. The tenor role of Saul in Conti's work was taken by Francesco Borosini, who later sang for Handel in London and Alan Curtis speculates that Borosini may have shown the libretto to Handel. Certainly Handel, like Conti, includes the scene where David tries to calm Saul's rage with a harp (in both works, David's harp is represented by a theorbo), and Saul's subsequent attempt to kill David with his javelin. Such comparisons were also made in Handel's day.

CATALOGUE NR: 3788772
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.50
RELEASE DATE: 20-Aug-2007

COMPOSER: Francesco Conti
TITLE: David - complete
CONDUCTOR: Alan Curtis
ARTISTS: Marijana Mijanovic   Simone Kermes   Furio Zanasi   Il Complesso Barocco

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