Giulio Prandi, Ghislieri Choir & Consort - Baldassarre Galuppi: Sacred Music (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 76:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697895982 | Recorded: 2010
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 344 Mb | Total time: 76:50 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697895982 | Recorded: 2010
The works on this disc—an undated Dixit Dominus, the Nisi Dominus of 1777, the Kyrie originally composed in 1746 and extensively revised in 1782, the Gloria of 1779, and the Credo of 1781—owe much to the Venetian School of the late Baroque, especially the sacred music of Vivaldi. [Several notable works previously attributed to Galuppi have, upon academic scrutiny, been re-attributed to Vivaldi, in fact.] On the surface, it seems surprising that music dating primarily from the last quarter of the Eighteenth Century is so comparatively little influenced by Classicism as it was then developing north of the Alps. It should be remembered, though, that the model of Alessandro Scarlatti remained a large influence on sacred music throughout Europe well into the first decades of the Nineteenth Century.