Sergio Balestracci, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto - Johann Gottlieb Naumann: La Passione di Gesù Cristo (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 508 Mb | Total time: 120:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 365-2 | Recorded: 2006
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 508 Mb | Total time: 120:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 365-2 | Recorded: 2006
JJohann Gottlieb Naumann, a contemporary of Joseph Haydn, was associated with Dresden, worked in Sweden and travelled in Italy. In his Passione di Gesù Cristo he concentrates on smaller scale emotions and conflicts – albeit in the context of the (conventional) Passion story. It was written, probably, in 1767. That’s quite an undertaking for a twenty-six year old, although Naumann already had several other vocal and choral successes to his name.
It’s performed crisply and with feeling by the musicians on these two CDs; they clearly have an affinity with the music, the style and the genre – and make the most of it. This oratorio may remind listeners new to Naumann’s music of a rather dour and straight-laced Haydn. It’s varied and serious without every touching the intensity of other, more familiar, such pieces by Naumann’s contemporaries and immediate predecessors. There are moments of jollity, penetrating insight into suffering as an experience, relief and release. The contrasts between the immediate and the wider context are explored. The human element is more important in Naumann’s conception of the Passion than the heavenly.
The two-hour long work was the response to a commission in Padua, in which city Naumann had numerous contacts, having become the pupil there of Giuseppe Tartini eight years earlier. There is some doubt about the exact date and circumstances of the composition and performance of La Passione di Gesù Cristo; what’s more, in 1787 another Passion by Naumann on the same theme and with the same name was performed.
Naumann followed the style current in Northern Italy… increasingly independent of operatic conventions, although with greater characterisation of the four principal figures, Peter, John, Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea; and a mixture of narrative reportage (of events) and reflective aria. Also of interest is the extent to which wider matters of faith and doctrine are explored… Peter’s aria, Se la pupilla inferma [CD2 tr.6], for example, laments humankind’s ability to know God because of the weight of its sin. This reflection is extended in John’s Dovunque il guardo giro [CD2 tr.8]. There is more of Mozart than Bach in this oratorio: the first line alone of Mary Magdalene’s Vorrei dirti il mio dolore ‘Let me tell you of my sorrow’ [CD1 tr.7] makes that plain!
But this is not a lightweight piece. Although it has none of the heart-wrenching choral highpoints of the Bach Passions, and few of the penetrating arias that we expect from even a Bach cantata, La Passione di Gesù Cristo is nevertheless satisfying. It’s its own work, written, one suspects, by a confident and accomplished composer who had thoroughly absorbed the many styles of the late Baroque which he had sought out and to which he had been exposed.
Of the singers Monica Bragadin (Mary Magdalene) is almost Ferrier-like in a low steely register, which conveys more authority than pain. Makoto Sakurada (Peter) is just the opposite – airy, full of pace and a little withdrawn. Raffaele Giordani (John) emphasises sensitivity, a studied detachment; he sings with great tenderness and sensitivity. Alfredo Grandini’s (Joseph) bass is perhaps the most fluid voice on this set. He wraps it around everything he comes across and uses its rich and resonant register to great effect – listen to All’idea de’ tuoi perigli [CD2 tr.4], for example; there is enough detachment to balance the commitment.
The Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto has an excellent sense of both tempo and dynamic, underlining the drama at both its quiet and its more animated moments, though they never really propel the action forward in a way that might have lent tension and contrast. There are times too when the strings are a little watery, a trifle strained. There are, on the other hand, some superbly played intricate numbers where quiet intimacy appropriately and consistently re-inforces the sense of humanity. Peter’s Se a librarsi in mezzo all’onde with the bassoon solo [CD2 tr.2] is a good example. La Stagione Armonica has a small role; it tends to come across as more a selection of soloists than even the most tamed Bachian chorus.
Sergio Balestracci has a retiring, almost hands-off role, which makes for a pure and transparent experience – Mozartian again.–Mark Sealey
Performer:
Monica Bragadin, mezzo-soprano
Makoto Sakurada, tenor
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Alfredo Grandini, bass
La Stagione Armonica
Padua and Veneto Orchestra
Conductor - Sergio Balestracci
Track List:
Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1741-1801)
La Passione di Gesù Cristo
CD1:
01. Parte I. Sinfonia
02. Recitativo accompagnato: Dove son? Dove corro?
03. Aria: Gia ché mi tremi in seno
04. Recitativo accompagnato: Ma qual dolente stuolo
05. Coro: Quanto costa il tuo diletto
06. Recitativo: Maddalena, Giovanni, Giuseppe
07. Aria: Vorrei dirti il mio dolore
08. Recitativo: Oh più di noi felice
09. Aria: Torbido mar che freme
10. Recitativo: Oh barbari! Oh crudeli!
11. Aria: Come a vista di pene sì fiere
12. Recitativo: E la madre fra tanto
13. Aria: Potea quel pianto
14. Recitativo: Come inventar potea
15. Aria: Tu nel duol felice sei
16. Recitativo: Dopo un pegno sì grande
17. Duetto: Vi sento, oh Dio, vi sento
18. Coro: Di quel sangue, o mortale
CD2:
01. Parte seconda. Recitativo: Ed insepolto ancora
02. Aria: Ritornerà fra voi
03. Recitativo: Qual terribil vendetta sovrasta a te
04. Aria: All'idea de' tuoi perigli
05. Recitativo: Le minacce non teme il popolo infedel
06. Aria: Se la pupilla inferma
07. Recitativo: Pur dovrebbe in tal giorno
08. Aria: Dovunque il guardo giro
09. Recitativo: Giovanni, anch'io lo so, per tutto è Dio
10. Ariea Ai passi erranti dubbio è il sentiero
11. Recitativo: Non senza guida, o Maddalena
12. Aria: Se a librarsi in mezzo all'onde
13. Recitativo: Ah dal felice marmo
14. Coro: Santa speme
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