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Background: Mediterranean passion - of a religious nature -- inspires L'Arpeggiata's new collection, an encounter between works by the 17th century Italian composers Sances and Merula and traditional music from Italy and Corsica.

L'Arpeggiata has made a speciality of exploring and exploiting the close links between Baroque repertoire and the traditional music of the Latin world and its characteristic forms such as the tarantella, the folia or the canario.

In this new collection, Via Crucis, 'the way of the Cross', the focus is on the pervasive presence of religious feeling in Southern Europe. The Passion of Christ evokes the same fervour in composers such as Giovanni Felice Sances (1600-1679) or Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665) - both active in northern Italy - as it does in the streets of Naples or the villages of Corsica. The two main works in the collection are Sance's extraordinary Stabat Mater and Merula's Hor ch'e tempo di dormire, in which the Virgin Mary lulls her baby to sleep while weeping for his future suffering and both enthrall the listener with a basso ostinato and hypnotic swaying rhythms.

CATALOGUE NR: 6945770
RECORD LABEL: Virgin
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.25
RELEASE DATE: 22-Mar-2010

TITLE: Via Crucis
TRACKS: L'Annonciation (Anon). Ninna nanna al bambino Gesu (Anon Napoletana). Maria sopra La Carpinese (Merula). Hor ch'e tempo di dormire (Biber). L'Aria (Legrenzi). Lumi potete piangere (Traditional Corsican). Suda sangue (Benedetto Ferrari). Queste pungente spine (Luigi Rossi). Voglio morire (Traditional Corsican). Stabat Mater (Giovanni Felice Sances). Stabat Mater (Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli). Passacaglia. Lamentu di Ghjesu sopra la Follia (Tarquinio Merula). Ciaccona (Monteverdi ). Laudate Dominum (Lorenzo Allegri). Canario (Anon). Ciaccona di Paradiso e dell'Inferno (Enzo Gragnaniello). 'Stu criatu (Vincenzo Capezzuto).
CONDUCTOR: Christina Pluhar
ARTISTS: Philippe Jaroussky   Nuria Rial   Barbara Furtuna   L'Arpeggiata

- May-2010 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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