Paul Dombrecht, Il Fondamento, La Sfera del canto - Pro defunctis: Liturgy for the Death of the Baroque Era (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 74:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | PAS933 | Recorded: 2000
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 371 Mb | Total time: 74:44 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | PAS933 | Recorded: 2000
The setting by Alphonse D’Eve (1666-1727)‚ born in Brussels and Kapellmeister at the church of Our Lady in Antwerp‚ of the motet for the dead‚ O acerbi‚ is not without its moments. The plangent opening is striking‚ as is the use of high voices at the beginning of the final chorus‚ presumably to represent the heavenly hosts referred to in the text. If the music‚ thoroughly Italianate in style and often reminiscent of Vivaldi‚ is somewhat predictable – the cadences are rather formulaic and the sequential patterns overused – it is certainly worth dusting down: it represents the kind of work that must have been heard in so many of the larger musical institutions all over Europe in the early part of the 18th century.