Rinaldo Alessandrini: Stradella: Mottetti - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Stradella: Mottetti
Artist: Rinaldo Alessandrini
Label: Naive
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 3700187671921
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2024-06-21
Number of Discs: 1

After a bewitching recording dedicated to several motets (OP30579, 2023) by Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690), Rinaldo Alessandrini and his Concerto Italiano continue their exploration of 17th century Italian motets. This time they bring their attention to a fascinating and highly rewarding composer: Alessandro Stradella (1643-1682), principally celebrated today for his oratorios and operas. This album presents five of his seventeen motets, deposited in the Bibliotheque Estense in Modena at the end of the seventeenth century. They are for the most part a world premiere.Rinaldo Alessandrini gathered together motets that are mainly relevant to the cult of the Virgin Mary, written for specific circumstances such as the Nativity (Nascere virgo), or the Immaculate Conception (Convocamini, congregamini), or for more generic feasts (Sixtite sidera, In tribulationibus), on texts chosen for each occasion, including one by Stradella himself (Exultate in Deo fideles).

Tracks:
1.1 Symphonia for 2 Violins and basso continuo in D major~Grave
1.2 Symphonia for 2 Violins and basso continuo in D major~Allegro
1.3 Symphonia for 2 Violins and basso continuo in D major~Allegro
1.4 Symphonia for 2 Violins and basso continuo in D major~Adagio - Allegro
1.5 Symphonia for 2 Violins and basso continuo in D major~Allegro
1.6 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 1. In tribulationis, in angustis
1.7 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 2. Aria. Ad montem venite
1.8 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 3. Ad floridum montem - Ritornello
1.9 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 4. Hic spirant leniter - Ritornello
1.10 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 5. O mons delitiarum - Ritornello
1.11 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 6. Aria. O gratum montem
1.12 In Tribulationibus, in angustiis motet for five voices, and two violins~No. 7. Eamus egentes
1.13 Exultate in deo fideles per il santissimo motet for bass with violins~No. 1. Aria. Exultate in Deo Fideles
1.14 Exultate in deo fideles per il santissimo motet for bass with violins~No. 2. Haec sunt munera divina
1.15 Exultate in deo fideles per il santissimo motet for bass with violins~No. 3. Aria. Exaudi supplices
1.16 Nascere virgo poten motet for three voices (two sopranos and bass)~No. 1. Nascere Virgo potens - O mundus infidus - hanc respice stellam
1.17 Nascere virgo poten motet for three voices (two sopranos and bass)~No. 2. O te felicem
1.18 Nascere virgo poten motet for three voices (two sopranos and bass)~No. 3. Per te superbus anguis - huc agite. stellae - huc agite, ad cunas
1.19 Nascere virgo poten motet for three voices (two sopranos and bass)~No. 4. Mille cantus, mille plausus
1.20 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 1. Introduzione. Sistite sidera. coeli motus otiamini
1.21 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 2. Aria. Ignis calor sopitus existat
1.22 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 3. Ecce sidus splendidissimum. Quae luce innocentissima
1.23 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 4. Aria. Ergo grates ei reddamus
1.24 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 5. In tantae solemnitatis die universus orbis
1.25 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 6. Aria. Praestet tellus encomia florum
1.26 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 7. Et omnis creatura
1.27 Sistite sidera, coeli motus otiamini pro festivitat beatissimae virgins mariae moctetum motet for sopran with instrments~No. 8. Aria. Ergo grates euereddamus
1.28 Symphonia for 2 violins and basso continuo in F major~I. Grave
1.29 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 1. Convocamini, congregamini
1.30 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 2. Huius cruore
1.31 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 3. Iniustum decretum...Pereat humanitas...Non regnet homo...homo non regnet...vivat, regnet infernus
1.32 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 4. Plora, geme
1.33 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 5. Franget haec
1.34 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 6. Caeli ianua patebit
1.35 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 7. Tu absterges Virgo luctus
1.36 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 8. Cum iucunditate
1.37 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 9. Sit nostra tutela
1.38 Convocamini, congregamini in conceptione beatae mariae semper virginis motet for five voices, with two violins~No. 10. Cum iucunditate