Melani / I Musici Del Gran Principe: Concerti Spirituali - COMPACT DISCS

Melani / I Musici Del Gran Principe: Concerti Spirituali - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Concerti Spirituali Artist: Melani I Musici Del Gran Principe Label: Brilliant Classics Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5028421959702 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2019 12 06 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: 2 PACK Brilliant Classics has long been renowned for reviving little known figures from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. Little enough is now known about Alessandro Melani, and his music has almost been forgotten, but this

Title: Concerti Spirituali
Artist: Melani / I Musici Del Gran Principe
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421959702
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019-12-06
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK

Brilliant Classics has long been renowned for reviving little-known figures from the Baroque and Renaissance eras. Little enough is now known about Alessandro Melani, and his music has almost been forgotten, but this beautifully prepared collection of his religious music should go some way to reviving his reputation. Born in 1639 in the city of Pistoia to the cathedral's bell-ringer, the youngest of seven sons, Alessandro Melani undertook his musical apprenticeship at the cathedral before taking up directorships in grander Italian cities. A move to Rome in 1667 changed his career and established his reputation; he came under the patronage of the Medici family, and published three collections of sacred music. The last of them now receives it's first-ever complete recording. This is Baroque vocal chamber music at once sombre and sumptuous, reverent and yet richly decorated like the basilicas where Melani worked. Marian hymns, penitential psalms and liturgical propers all receive lavish treatments in combinations of two, three and five voices, buttressed in this recording by a five-part continuo accompaniment designed to draw out every one of Melani's luscious harmonies and featuring organ, harpsichord, cello, string bass, archlute and theorbo. The recording is the work of a dynamic young Italian early-music group founded in 2017 and led by the prodigiously talented Samuele Lastrucci, formerly assistant to the mercurial Baroque expert Federico Maria Sardelli. Since 2015 he has been the artistic director of the Tuscan-based Da Vinci Baroque Festival; he is presently maestro di capella of the Church of Ss. Michele and Gaetano in Florence.

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