Release Date: 01 January 2007
Label: Cpo - Full Price / CPO
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 761203718023
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: LOTTI
Description
During the first half of the eighteenth century, Antonio Lotti was numbered among the most important Italian composers. Sadly, today's knowledge does not correspond to his deserved status. Born in Venice, Lotti spent most of his professional life there (including thirty years as the organist at St Mark's Basilica). Sacred music proved the main focus of his compositions, but he increasingly turned to the writing of operas that were to prove great successes, and resulted in a two-year appointment as music director in Dresden. These two years in Dresden occasioned a flourishing of sacred music, some of which is presented here. The 'Dixit Dominus' on this disc is almost unique for its time in its genial interpretation of the text, and ranges from extreme emotional intensity to filigree tenderness. Antonio Lotti is one of the forgotten masters of eighteenth-century choral music, and surely deserves a renaissance!
Tracklisting
Slovak Chamber Orchestra; Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein; Salzburger Hofmusik; Bohdan Warch
Gernot Submuth; Ramon Jaffe; Monica Gutman
Yannick Debus; Ulrike Hofbauer; Anita Rosati; Nina Bernsteiner; Nils Wanderer; Seda Amir-Karayan; M
THERESIA; Vanni Moretto
Tanja Becker-Bender; Kurpfalzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim; Johannes Schlaefli
Stephanie Varnerin; L'Astree
Solomon's Knot; Les Passions de l'Ame; Jonathan Sells; Meret Luthi
Mathis Rochat; Stephen Waarts; Christine Theus; Camerata Schweiz; Howard Griffiths
