4250128524087

Puzzi: Messa A Quattro Voci Con Violoncelli, Fagotti, Basso, Ed Organo

Ensemble Bonne Corde; Diana Vinagre

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Format: CD

Cat No: RAM2408

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Release Date:  05 September 2025

Label:  Outhere / Ramee

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4250128524087

Genres:  Classical  Chamber Music  

Composer/Series:  Puzzi

  • Description

    The Messa a quattro voci con Violoncelli, Fagotti, Basso, ed Organo is an example of a particular type of sacred music that emerged at the end of the 18th century at the Portuguese court, in which the bass instruments imitate a classical orchestral texture. The resulting instrumental ensemble -- two cellos and two bassoons with solo lines, with the bass line assigned to double bass and organ -- was to remain standard until the first quarter of the 19th century. A body of some thirty works, including masses, settings of psalms. the Te Deum, Vespers, and responsories is proof enough of the importance of this repertoire in Portuguese musical life in this period; there was nothing equivalent to this instrumentation in other European lands at that time.

    This, the first recording of a work from this uniquely Portuguese repertoire with obbligato cellos and bassoons, is also the first recording of a work by Antonio de Padua Puzzi.