Alessandro de Marchi, Berliner Barock Akademie - Niccolo Jommelli: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo (1996)
Alessandro de Marchi, Berliner Barock Akademie - Niccolò Jommelli: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 618 Mb | Total time: 79:04+46:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K617 | # K617063 | Recorded: 1996
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 618 Mb | Total time: 79:04+46:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: K617 | # K617063 | Recorded: 1996
Niccolò Jommelli is a composer whose significance in his own time has strangely not endured. His importance as an innovator in the field of opera is probably as significant as that of Gluck, in the generation immediately following. He was particularly important in the development of orchestrally accompanied recitative, a feature that is apparent throughout this oratorio. Indeed, the orchestral importance is one of the highlights of the disc, for, while the singing is excellent, the playing of the Berliner Barock Akademie is outstanding. There are also several excellently played aria obbligatos. This is the second feature of Jommelli’s writing that comes across as reason for surprise at his neglect. The writing in his arias is both melodically beautiful and extensively developed; many of the arias are seven or eight minutes long, yet with no padding of sequences. The demands that this places on the soloists is considerable, and they are a uniformly excellent group, Anke Herrmann and Jeffrey Francis in particular rising to the challenge of some exceptional demands with panache.
The chorus has comparatively little to do, but sings with a vivid sound and the clear, flexible Italian of a native group. Throughout, Alessandro de Marchi maintains a firm control of the pacing and flow. This is especially important in the recitatives, through which most of the narrative is conveyed. Unlike conventional ‘recitativo seco’ accompanied by continuo, who are free to follow the singer with comparative ease, the demands of the orchestrally accompanied recits create a different balance between the freedom of the singer to stress and pace the text as he or she wishes, and the ensemble tautness required of an accompanying band. While it is easy enough to maintain ensemble through careful rehearsal, maintaining freedom in this situation is quite a different story. This is possibly the most laudable aspect of de Marchi’s direction.
When we are so used to hearing the passion story in the manner of Lutheran renditions of which Bach is the zenith, the operatic aspects of the Italian version create quite a different impression. Indeed, from the music alone, one would never know that this was not a secular opera. Theological complaints notwithstanding, this does the music something of a service, for it is, after all, the rendition of a dramatic story, so the operatic style seems completely appropriate. Why the Roman authorities had such a problem with the idea is hard to understand given music of this effectiveness and beauty. Given this convincing interpretation and excellent performance, this is a work well worth rediscovering.–Peter Wells
Performer:
Anke Herrmann - Maddalena (soprano)
Debora Bernesi - Giovanni (mezzo soprano)
Jeffrey Francis - Pietro (tenor)
Maurizio Picconi - Guiseppe d’Arimatea (baritone)
Coro dei seguaci di Cristo
Ensemble Eufonia and Ensemble vocale Sigismondo D’India
Berliner Barock Akademie
Conductor - Alessandro de Marchi
Track List:
CD1
Parte Prima
01. Overture
02. Recitativo: Dove son! Dove corro?
03. Aria: Giacché mi tremi in seno
04. Recitativo: Ma qual dolente stuolo
05. Coro: Quanto costa il tuo delitto
06. Recitativo: Maddalena, Giovanni
07. Aria: Vorrei dirti il mio dolore
08. Recitativo: O più di noi felice
09. Aria: Torbido mar che freme
10. Recitativo: O barbari! O crudeli
11. Recitativo: Altri gli svelle
12. Aria: Come, vista di pene si fiere
13. Recitativo: E la Madre frattanto
14. Aria: Potea quel pianto
15. Recitativo: Come inventar potea
16. Aria: Tu nel duol felice sei
17. Recitativo: Dopo un pegno sì grande
18. Duetto: Vi sento, o Dio, vi sento
19. Coro: Di qual sangue mortale
CD2
Parte Seconda
01. Recitativo: Ed insepolto ancora
02. Aria: Retornerà tra voi
03. Recitativo: Qual terribil vendetta
04. Aria: All’ idea de’ tuoi perigli
05. Recitativo: Pur dovrebbe in tal giorno
06. Aria: Dovunque il guardo io giro
07. Recitativo: Giovanni, anchio lo so
08. Aria: A’ passi erranti
09. Recitativo: Non senza guida
10. Aria: Se a librarsi in mezzo all’onde
11. Recitativo: Ah dal felice marmo
12. Coro: Santa speme
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Alessandro de Marchi, Berliner Barock Akademie - Niccolo Jommelli: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo (1996)
