Name: Monteverdi | Carissimi | Scarlatti | Purcell
Start: 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-02T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Lingotto

Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Orchestra

English Baroque Soloists

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Monteverdi | Carissimi | Scarlatti | Purcell

Vicenza

Italy

Teatro Olimpico

Turin

Lingotto

Auditorium Giovanni Agnelli

Monteverdi | Carissimi | Scarlatti | Purcell: Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei (+4 More)

Public

Jehova, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes Mei

Messa a 4 Voci da Cappella

Stabat Mater

Hear my Prayer, O Lord, Z. 15

Jephtha

Approved

In November 2022, the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner performed a programme of Baroque choral masterpieces at iconic venues in Northern Italy.

Programme:

Purcell Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes
Monteverdi Messa a 4 voci da cappella
D. Scarlatti Stabat mater
Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
Carissimi Jephte

Three Italian choral masterpieces showcase the virtuosity of the Monteverdi Choir, and highlight the changing musical styles in Italy in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Monteverdi’s final setting of the mass, written while he was maestro di cappella of St Mark’s in Venice in the first half of the 17th century, mixes the older polyphonic style with more declamatory passages. Carissimi’s Jephte, a miniature sacred musical drama written in the middle of the 17th century, uses an almost operatic style of solo writing alongside meltingly beautiful choruses to tell the Old Testament story of Jephtha, the Israelite leader forced to sacrifice his own daughter. Domenico Scarlatti’s 10-voice Stabat mater, composed in the early years of the 18th century, combines the old-fashioned polyphonic choral style with a passionate rhetoric, in a graphic depiction of Christ’s crucifixion with all the intensity of a Bernini sculpture or a Caravaggio tableau.

Two pieces by Purcell reveal Italianate influence on the English composer: in the 8-voice Hear my prayer, O Lord the harmonies become ever more extraordinary in a crescendo of supplication to God; while Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes (an exceptional setting of a Latin text in Purcell’s oeuvre) features an almost Monteverdian declamatory style.

English

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Ensemble