Astrarium Consort & Carlo Centemeri - Durante: Requiem in G Minor (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Introitus I. Requiem aeternam
02. Introitus II. Kyrie
03. Gradualis et tractus I. Requiem aeternam - In memoria aeterna
04. Fuga in C Minor
05. Sequentia I. Dies Irae, dies illa
06. Sequentia II. Recordare Jesu pie
07. Sequentia III. Ingemisco tamquam reus
08. Sequentia IV. Confutatis maledictis
09. Sequentia V. Lacrymosa dies illa
10. Offertorium I. Domine Jesu Christe
11. Offertorium II. Hostias
12. Sanctus I. Sanctus
13. Sanctus II. Benedictus
14. Toccata (Anonymous, Naples, XVII sec.)
15. Agnus dei
16. Communio I. Lux aeterna
17. Exitus I. Libera me domine


Francesco Durante (1684-1755) was the most important representative of the Neapolitan School in the first half of the 18-th century, “the greatest harmonist in Italy, that is the world” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his Dictionnaire de Musique. His pupils include Pergolesi, Jommelli and Paisiello.

Durante was one of the foremost composers of sacred music in his time. This new recording presents his magnificent Requiem in G minor, one of the greatest of the Baroque era. The work uses the principles of Renaissance and Baroque polyphony in its complex counterpoint made up of canons, fugues, notation with long values, use of the “Cantus firmus” and rhetorical elements (the descending chromatism) in a style that has a direct reference to the Palestrina style.

The Italian Astrarium Consort is specialized in the exploration of Neapolitan Baroque music. They play on period instruments and have based their performance on a critical survey of the original manuscript scores.

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