ORATORIO PER LA SETTIMANA SANTA

Composer(s): Various

Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe
Reference: KTC1586
Barcode: 8711801015866
Format: 1 CD
Release date: 2017-04-03
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The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa

The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, which is among the very first compositions to be labelled "oratorio" in the sources, was composed in Rome in the 1640s. It was probably performed in the Oratorio di San Girolamo della Carità, where Filippo Neri held his esercizi spirituali. It appears in a manuscript source from the Barberini collection of the Vatican Library which doesn’t specify its composer— although this is usually identified as Luigi Rossi — but names Giulio Cesare Raggioli as the author of the text. Both Raggioli and Rossi worked for members of the Barberini family, who were close relations of pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), and themselves powerful patrons of music and the arts.

an opera
The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa is an oratorio volgare, meaning that the libretto is not in Latin but in Italian, and it is the earliest example of an oratorio based on the Passion of Christ. Its treatment of the Passion narrative is quite unusual, as it distances itself from the canonical gospels, adding characters like the Demons that seem to come straight out of an opera.

Luigi Rossi (Torremaggiore 1597-Rome 1653) was the pupil of the Flemish composer Giovanni de Macque, himself famous for his madrigals. From 1633 Rossi was the organist of S. Luigi dei Francesi and worked for Cardinal Antonio Barberini, writing operas, cantatas and oratorios. After the death of Urban VIII in 1644, he was invited to Paris by Cardinal Mazarin, where his opera Orfeo (1647) was a great success. His music was widely known and his style imitated throughout Europe.

- Peter de Laurentiis

1. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa: Sinfonia grave
Composer: Salamone Rossi
Artist(s): Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

2. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, prima parte: Turba, Pilato
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

3. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa: Sonata Decima Quinta à 4: Adasio (Sinfonia)
Composer: Dario Castello
Artist(s): Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

4. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Prima parte: Demoni
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

5. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Prima parte: Coro de’ demoni
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

6. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Demoni
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

7. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Maria ‘Tormenti non più’
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

8. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Maria ‘Asprissimi chiodi’
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): Véronique Nosbaum, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

9. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Maria ‘Errai, ah figlio errai’
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

10. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Maria ‘Votisi’ – ‘Dolori’
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): Véronique Nosbaum, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

11. The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, Seconda parte: Coro ‘Piangete, occhi piangete’
Composer: Luigi Rossi
Artist(s): cantoLX, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

12. Orfeo dolente: ‘Numi d’Abisso’
Composer: Domenico Belli
Artist(s): Peter de Laurentiis, Ensemble de La Chapelle Saint-Marc, Frank Agsteribbe

13. Toccata for Keyboard
Composer: Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Artist(s): Frank Agsteribbe

14. Toccata quarta for Keyboard
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi
Artist(s): Frank Agsteribbe

15. Toccata for Keyboard (2)
Composer: Giovanni Picchi
Artist(s): Frank Agsteribbe

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The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa

The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa, which is among the very first compositions to be labelled "oratorio" in the sources, was composed in Rome in the 1640s. It was probably performed in the Oratorio di San Girolamo della Carità, where Filippo Neri held his esercizi spirituali. It appears in a manuscript source from the Barberini collection of the Vatican Library which doesn’t specify its composer— although this is usually identified as Luigi Rossi — but names Giulio Cesare Raggioli as the author of the text. Both Raggioli and Rossi worked for members of the Barberini family, who were close relations of pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), and themselves powerful patrons of music and the arts.

an opera
The Oratorio per la Settimana Santa is an oratorio volgare, meaning that the libretto is not in Latin but in Italian, and it is the earliest example of an oratorio based on the Passion of Christ. Its treatment of the Passion narrative is quite unusual, as it distances itself from the canonical gospels, adding characters like the Demons that seem to come straight out of an opera.

Luigi Rossi (Torremaggiore 1597-Rome 1653) was the pupil of the Flemish composer Giovanni de Macque, himself famous for his madrigals. From 1633 Rossi was the organist of S. Luigi dei Francesi and worked for Cardinal Antonio Barberini, writing operas, cantatas and oratorios. After the death of Urban VIII in 1644, he was invited to Paris by Cardinal Mazarin, where his opera Orfeo (1647) was a great success. His music was widely known and his style imitated throughout Europe.

- Peter de Laurentiis