Salve Regina. Motets by Hasse and Porpora Les Muffatti & Clint van der Linde

• Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 - 1783):
• 1 Hasse: Hostes averni: I. Hostes averni 04:33
• 2 Hasse: Hostes averni: II. Accensa impio furore 01:26
• 3 Hasse: Hostes averni: III. Blanda in prato 08:08
• 4 Hasse: Hostes averni: IV. Alleluia 01:28
• Nicola Porpora (1686 – 1768): Salve Regina:
• 5 Porpora: Salve Regina: I. Salve Regina 03:56
• 6 Porpora: Salve Regina: II. Ad te clamamus 01:58
• 7 Porpora: Salve Regina: III. Ad te suspiramus 02:15
• 8 Porpora: Salve Regina: IV. Eia ergo 01:06
• 9 Porpora: Salve Regina: V. Illos tuos 03:14
• 10 Porpora: Salve Regina: VI. O clemens, o pia 02:21
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741): Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 154:
• 11 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 154: I. Allegro 01:48
• 12 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 154: II. Adagio 01:58
• 13 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in G Minor, RV 154: III. Allegro 02:35
• Nicola Porpora: Nisi Dominus:
• 14 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: I. Nisi Dominus 01:34
• 15 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: II. Vanum est 03:55
• 16 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: III. Cum dederit 00:46
• 17 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: IV. Sicut saggitæ 00:54
• 18 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: V. Beatus vir 03:21
• 19 Porpora: Nisi Dominus: VI. Gloria 03:21
• Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in F Major, RV 136:
• 20 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in F Major, RV 136: I. Allegro 01:38
• 21 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in F Major, RV 136: II. Andante. Pizzicato 01:50
• 22 Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings in F Major, RV 136: III. Allegro. Minuetto 01:19
• Johann Adolph Hasse: Alma Redemptoris Mater:
• 23 Hasse: Alma Redemptoris Mater: I. Alma Redemptoris Mater 05:45
• 24 Hasse: Alma Redemptoris Mater: II. Tu quæ genuisti 02:51
• 25 Hasse: Alma Redemptoris Mater: III. Virgo prius 04:54
• Total Runtime 01:08:54

Info for Salve Regina. Motets by Hasse and Porpora

Naples was in the mid-18th century the third largest European city and one of the greatest centres of political, commercial and cultural influence. The conservatoires there were founded by religious orders and were originally intended as charitable institutions for the accommodation and education of orphans, but soon became real centres of musical education and performance; many leading composers were pupils and teachers there and so contributed to the founding of the Neapolitan School.

Porpora and Hasse are the greatest representatives of the Neapolitan style and both settled in Venice before rising to international fame. Their writing was strongly influenced by opera and reflects the Italian taste of the time; it is also present in their religious compositions.

Les Muffatti and the South-African countertenor Clint van der Linde present works of exceptional expressive power, with Hasse’s Hostes averni and Porpora’s Nisi Dominus being recorded here for the first time.

Clint van der Linde, counter-tenor
Les Muffatti

Clint van der Linde
Born in South Africa, Clint van der Linde started singing at the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School aged ten. He gained the Queen Mother Scholarship for a four year B-Mus Degree at the RCM, London, where he completed his Post-Graduate studies, and in 1998 won the first prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Society Bursary for Young Singers.

Clint’s musical passport to the UK was thanks to the Eton Choral courses. In 1996 after his first Eton Choral Course, he was invited to join The Rodolfus Choir with which he did several tours including the States. Soon after, he was offered an International scholarship to attend Eton College for one year.

At the RCM, Clint van der Linde’s repertoire included Oberon A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the title roles in Flavio, Lotario and Ottone and Judas Brockes Passion. He has repeated the role of Oberon at the Royal Danish Opera and his operatic repertoire has further included Fernando Don Chischiotte in Sierra Morena with Musikwerkstatt Wien, Dardanus Amadigi with Der Lautten Compageney, Berlin, Narciso Agrippina with the Combattimento Consort (a performance now available on DVD) and The Guardian of the Threshold Die Frau ohne Schatten at La Monnaie. He made his debut at the 2009 Edinburgh International Festival singing the title role in Rinaldo with Bach Collegium Japan under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki.

Current engagements include the title roles in Flavio and Tolomeo for English Touring Opera, Andronico Tamerlano at the Göttingen Festival, the St John Passion with Polyphony and the Academy of Ancient Music, an Australian tour of Messiah with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Queensland Orchestra conducted by Stephen Layton and Messiah with the Bach Collegium in Japan.

Les Muffatti
was founded in 1996 by a group of young Brussels musicians out of a desire to equip themselves professionally for the world of orchestral baroque music. They sought above all else to give primacy to the pleasure of making music, together with an intensive exploration of the musical material itself and paying scrupulous attention to every detail of its performance.

After ten years under the baton of Peter Van Heyghen, the musicians assumed joint responsibility for the orchestra’s artistic direction in 2014; the musical direction for various projects has since been entrusted to guest musicians, soloists, conductors and Konzertmeisters. The ensemble is committed to establishing a fine balance between the great works of the established repertoire and lesser known or newly discovered compositions.

The ensemble’s name is a reference to Georg Muffat (1653-1704), a cosmopolitan composer whose works are essential source material for the history of early orchestral music. Muffat was also one of the first musicians to document the principal characteristics that differentiated the French from the Italian style in detail. The ensemble’s debut recording was devoted to his compositions.

Les Muffatti’s discography so far comprises eight recordings, all of which have met with universal acclaim.

The recording of Reinhard Keiser’s Brockes-Passion with Vox Luminis received Belgium’s three top honours: Klara’s recording of the year, a classical Octave, and the Caecilia prize from the Belgian musical press. Their latest recording, Johann Sebastian Bach – Concertos for Organ and Strings, is devoted to reconstructions of concertos and sinfonias by Johann Sebastian Bach with Bart Jacobs as soloist. This album continues to garner praise from both the general and musical press internationally, including the Diapason d’Or (France), Luister (The Netherlands), Toccata (Germany) and the Klara Award for Best Classical CD of the Year.

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