Carlotta Colombo, Danielle Reutter-Harrah, Alissa Magee - Marco Marazzoli: Cantatas of Peace and Pleasure (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Sinfonia – Al Tirso della mano
02. Su prendete o miei ministri
03. Signor, già corre alla vendemmia usata
04. Su, su, si corra all’opra
05. O d’ambra o vermiglie
06. Un più lontano Autunno
07. Su, su via da noi concordi
08. Questo, questo vogl’io che spuma e brilla
09. All’armi, all’armi
10. Oimè, Zenobia
11. O mie pene troppo rigide catene
12. Si segua, si corra veloce
13. Così in petto di Re
14. Ritornello – O suolo beato
15. Così dicea sovra una prora aurata
16. Ritornello – Chi sei tu che gonfio d’ardire
17. Qual naufrago indegno
18. Cede un’ira insuperabile
19. Questo Pin ch’è d’or pomposo
20. Deh non t’affligger più
21. Ch’esser non può
22. Mortali, o voi ch’in atra notte
23. Voi tra nembi, e tra gl’horrori
24. Tornate o guerrieri
25. Oimè, qual voce tanto feroce
26. Eccomi pronta ancella d’Alessandro
27. Fuggite o perigli

The Boston Early Music Festival's newest recording explores the magnificent vocal cantatas of Roman composer Marco Marazzoli. Musical Directors Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs lead an all-star roster of singers and instrumentalists in Marazzoli's extravagant musical entertainments. These miniature dramas present a kaleidoscopic variety of arias, duets, trios, and quartets culminating in glorious choruses for six voices.

Marco Marazzoli was a harpist, tenor, and composer who wrote more than 380 cantatas for one to six voices, in addition to operas, oratorios, motets, and liturgical works. Each six-voice cantatas featured here treats a different subject: one features Bacchus and his followers overindulging in the grape harvest, another recounts Radamisto’s daring escape from the clutches of vengeful King Tiridate. Il Riposo conjures the peace and tranquility of the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, while another, La Guerra e la Pace, is an allegory of the struggle between War and Peace. The cantatas survive in nearly illegible autograph scores in the Vatican archives, which is undoubtedly the main reason these works have not been performed in modern times, despite the extraordinary quality of the music itself.

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