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Composer:
Alessandro Scarlatti

Artist(s):
Nancy Argenta
Marinella Pennicchi

Conductor:
Diego Fasolis

Background: Until recently all traces of Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio Il martirio di Santa Cecilia had been lost. Discovered in the manuscript collection of the Fondation Martin Bodmer in Cologny, near Geneva, this oratorio which had been undiscovered for decades was immediately performed in Zurich.

Karl Böhmer (the booklet author) and Oliver Mattern produced the first modern edition of the work. The interpreters on that occasion are again featured on the present recording. This sacred tragedy could rightly be termed one of the most dramatic and mature oratorios of the Roman baroque. Although there are no choruses, the action is portrayed with long recitative dialogues between the protagonists, and the music’s strongest moments come when the recitatives go over into expressive accompagnati, widely ranging ariosi, and affective arias. Like all of Scarlatti’s gloomy, fatalistic oratorios, this work culminates in bloody scenes of murder and martyrdom.

CATALOGUE NR: 7772582
RECORD LABEL: CPO
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 19.99 including VAT, or £ 17.01 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 30-Jun-2008

COMPOSER: Alessandro Scarlatti
TITLE: Il martirio di Santa Cecilia - complete
ORCHESTRA: I Barocchisti
CONDUCTOR: Diego Fasolis
ARTISTS: Nancy Argenta   Marinella Pennicchi   Bernhard Landauer   Marco Beasley

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