G.B. Martini: Musiche per il triduo in onore del beato Giuseppe da Copertino (Roma, 1753) Ecclesia Nova, Concerto Romano, Alessandro Quarta

• Giovanni Battista Martini (1706 - 1784): Versetto:
• 1 Martini: Versetto: Deus in adiutorium 00:20
• Domine ad adiuvandum:
• 2 Martini: Domine ad adiuvandum 01:46
• Gloria Patri:
• 3 Martini: Gloria Patri 02:27
• Sicut erat in principio:
• 4 Martini: Sicut erat in principio 02:25
• Antifona (commune Confessoris non Pontificis, in secundis Vesperis):
• 5 Martini: Antifona (commune Confessoris non Pontificis, in secundis Vesperis): Serve bone 01:02
• Laudate Dominum omnes gentes:
• 6 Martini: Laudate Dominum omnes gentes 03:24
• Antifona (commune Confessoris non Pontificis, in primis Vesperis):
• 7 Martini: Antifona (commune Confessoris non Pontificis, in primis Vesperis): Similabo eum 01:12
• Magnificat:
• 8 Martini: Magnificat 07:57
• Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709): Sonata in Re maggiore per tromba e orchestra (Bologna, 1690) in D Major, G.1 = A.2.2.1:
• 9 Torelli: Sonata in Re maggiore per tromba e orchestra (Bologna, 1690) in D Major, G.1 = A.2.2.1: I. Adagio 02:15
• 10 Torelli: Sonata in Re maggiore per tromba e orchestra (Bologna, 1690) in D Major, G.1 = A.2.2.1: II. [Allegro] 01:48
• 11 Torelli: Sonata in Re maggiore per tromba e orchestra (Bologna, 1690) in D Major, G.1 = A.2.2.1: III. Grave 02:18
• 12 Torelli: Sonata in Re maggiore per tromba e orchestra (Bologna, 1690) in D Major, G.1 = A.2.2.1: IV. [Allegro] 01:55
• Giovanni Battista Martini: Intonazione:
• 13 Martini: Intonazione: Te Deum laudamus 00:35
• Te Deum laudamus:
• 14 Martini: Te Deum laudamus 03:42
• Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus:
• 15 Martini: Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus 01:50
• Te per orbem terrarum:
• 16 Martini: Te per orbem terrarum 03:08
• Te ergo quaesumus ... Aeterna fac:
• 17 Martini: Te ergo quaesumus ... Aeterna fac 03:14
• Et rege eos:
• 18 Martini: Et rege eos 01:30
• Dignare Domine:
• 19 Martini: Dignare Domine 03:13
• Total Runtime 46:01

Info for G.B. Martini: Musiche per il triduo in onore del beato Giuseppe da Copertino (Roma, 1753)

The fame of Father Giambattista Martini is largely due to the activity as a historiographer, theoretician and teacher of music unceasingly carried out by him in the Bolognese convent of S. Francesco: his monumental Storia della musica, the first history of music ever written in Italian and published in Italy, was hailed by the most distinguished personalities of that period, who unanimously praised his deep erudition; and a great number of young composers and musicographers from all over Europe, wishing to learn the secrets of this art, stopped in Bologna to receive a training or perfect their knowledge under his guidance. A less celebrated activity of Martini's was that as a composer, which he carried out continuously as maestro di cappella in the Basilica next to the Bolognese convent, from 1725 to the time of his death. The pieces presented in this cd relate a little-known episode in Martini's life, an episode that shows how highly he was appreciated also as a composer. Alessandro Quarta, leading the Concerto Romano and the vocal ensemble Ecclesia Nova, is the protagonist of this precious world premiere recording, a live production by Tactus of the concert held in Bologna at the Basilica of San Francesco on 21st of April 2023.

Concerto Romano
Ecclesia Nova
Alessandro Quarta, direction

Alessandro Quarta
musical director and founder of the renowned vocal and instrumental ensemble Concerto Romano, has dedicated himself to the rediscovery of Roman and Italian music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. He regularly leads his ensemble on concert tours through Europe and the USA and has received outstanding reviews and awards for their recordings, such as the "Prix Caecilia" for the CD "Sacred music for the poor" in 2015 and the "Diapason d'or" for "La sete di Christo" by Bernardo Pasquini in 2016. Artistic collaborations and co-operations connect him with the Ensemble Emelthée from Lyon, the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, the Ensemble Blue Heron in Boston and the Consortium of the Carissimi Ensemble in Minneapolis for the modern premiere of the opera "Tirinto" by Bernardo Pasquini.

Guest conducting engagements currently take him to the Orchestra barocca nazionale dei Conservatori, the Kiel Theatre, the Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado di Ferrara and the Reate Festival, where he has already performed Monteverdi's "Ritorno di Ulisse" and Melani's "L'empio Punito". He regularly teaches at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, among others. Since 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Conservatorio E. F. Dall'Abaco in Verona. He has been teaching at the Fondazione Italiana Per la Musica Antica since 2007 and has been artistic director of the international FIMA Early Music Festival in Urbino since 2018.

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