Consortium Carissimi & Garrick Comeaux - Gratiani: Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25 (2016)

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01. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Siamo qui Suore fatali - Linh Kauffman
02. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Ecco aperto l'abisso - Linh Kauffman
03. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Mobile nave e nostra vita - Linh Kauffman
04. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Germoglino a mille - Heather Cogswell
05. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Non ho voglia di penar piu - Bergen Baker
06. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Generoso pensiero - Linh Kauffman
07. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Crudelissime spine - Clara Osowski
08. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Peccator dimmi perche - Bergen Baker
09. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Gran tesoro dei mortali - Bergen Baker
10. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Su lieto mio cuore - Bergen Baker
11. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Amici pastori - Michelle Liebl
12. Musiche sagre e morali, Op. 25: Mal'accorto pensiero - Bergen Baker


Bonifazio Graziani, maestro di cappella at the Jesuit Church in Rome, is now emerging as one of the most eminent figures of the mid-seventeenth century Roman baroque period, the so-called Scuola romana. Like his great contemporary, Giacomo Carissimi, he favoured the genre of the solo cantata for one, two, three and four voices. The liturgical cantatas, or motets, from Musiche sagre e morali, are notable for their tremendously varied subject matter, ranging from Lenten penitential and Christmas themes to philosophical discourse on the meaning of life, as in Mal’accorto pensier (On the vanity of the world). Volume 1 of polyphonic works by Graziani can be heard on Naxos 8573256.

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