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Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

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Rene Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)

René Jacobs, Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Antonio Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 126:27 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # 905221.22 | Recorded: 1995

The oratorio as a musical form emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century as a kind of "spiritual exercise" encouraged by the Congregazione dell'Oratorio in Rome. The performances took place in oratories (prayer halls) constructed above church naves and were intended to be attractive but edifying entertainments. Then as later, oratorios generally reflected the popular forms and styles of secular music – and in late Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this meant opera, though based on religious rather than mythological and heroic themes. The most prolific composer in this genre was Antonio Caldara (c1670-1736); New Grove lists 43 oratorios (in addition to many operas) and there are probably more that have been lost, written for patrons in his native Venice, Rome, Florence, Mantua, and Vienna.
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (Magdalene at the Feet of Christ) was probably written around 1700 in Rome. The tight and cohesive libretto by Lodovici Forni (also used by Bononcini in 1690) is based on Luke 7:36-50, with the addition of Martha from John 11:1-2 and 12:1-4. For dramatic purposes, Forni introduced the figures of Celestial and Earthly Love (representing good and evil) in combat for the soul of Maddalena, whose irresolution and anguish – not reflected in the spare Biblical narrative – are movingly depicted.
The music is conventional for its time. All arias are in da capo form, some small-scale and intimate and scored for continuo only, others expanded and using larger orchestral forces, more flamboyant and operatic in nature. There are only three concerted arias, all duets for Earthly and Celestial Love, and relationships among the characters are explored only in the recitatives, with the arias reflecting a variety of moods and emotions. The instrumental writing is consistently imaginative and expressive, and many of the arias, especially those of Maddalena in the course of her renunciation of worldly pleasures in favor of Jesus, are full of feeling and exceptionally beautiful. Handel probably met Caldara in Rome, and may well have learned something from him; at any rate, the comparison is not at all in Caldara's disfavor.
René Jacobs is a specialist in baroque vocal music, and under his guidance the singers (mostly former students at his Schola Cantorum in Basel) and the instrumental group of that institution provide fluent, expressive, and idiomatic performances. Maria Cristina Kiehr has a lovely, clear voice and conveys Maddalena's emotions with much color and feeling. Bernarda Fink opens and closes the piece with force and beauty, and her final aria is a brilliant and hell-raising act of defiance; Rosa Dominguez is equally effective as Martha. I can even put up with counter-tenor Andreas Scholl, who does less hooting than most of his ilk, and Ulrich Messthaler and Gerd Türk are smooth and clear in the smaller roles of the Pharisee and Christ. The sound is excellent. This is unfamiliar music that is too beautiful to be neglected, and these discs are very welcome.
–Alexander J. Morin

Performer:
Maddalena - Maria Cristina Kiehr
Marta - Rosa Dominguez
Earthly Love - Bernarda Fink
Celestial Love - Andreas Scholl
Pharisee - Ulrich Messthaler
Christ - Gerd Türk
Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Conductor - René Jacobs

Tracklist:
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736)
Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
CD1:
01. Parte prima. Sinfonia
02. Aria. Amor Terreno: Dormi, o cara, e formi il sonno
03. Recitativo. Amor Terreno: Così godea la mente
04. Aria. Amor Terreno: Deh, librate amoretti
05. Recitativo. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: Del sonno lusinghiero
06. Aria. Amor Celeste: La ragione, s'un'alma conseglia
07. Recitativo. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: Così sciolta da'lacci de' sui error
08. Allegro. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: Alle vittorie
09. Recitativo. Maddalena: Oimè, troppo importuno
10. Aria. Maddalena: In un bivio è il mio volere
11. Recitativo. Amor Celeste: Maddalena, nel cielo fissa lo sguardo
12. Aria. Amor Celeste: Spera, consolati
13. Recitativo. Amor Terreno: Troppo dura è la legge
14. Aria. Amor Terreno: Fin che danzan le grazie sul viso
15. Recitativo. Marta, Maddalena: Germana, al ciel, deh, volgi
16. Aria. Marta: Non sdegna il ciel le lagrime
17. Recitativo. Marta: Omai spezza quel nodo
18. Aria. Maddalena: Pompe inutili
19. Recitativo. Maddalena, Amor Terreno, Amor Celeste: E voi, dorati crini
20. Aria. Amor Terreno, Amor Celeste: Il sentier ch'ora tu prendi
21. Recitativo. Maddalena: Maddalena, coraggio!
22. Aria. Maddalena: Diletti non più vanto
23. Recitativo. Marta: Dell'anima tua grande
24. Aria. Marta: Vattene, cori, vola
25. Recitativo. Maddalena: Marta, ho risolto
26. Aria. Maddalena: Voglio piangere
27. Recitativo. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: A tuo dispetto, Amor Terreno
28. Duetto. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: La mia virtude
CD2:
01. Parte seconda. Sinfonia
02. Recitativo. Fariseo: Donna grande e fastosa
03. Aria. Fariseo: Parti, che di virtù il gradito splendor
04. Recitativo. Maddalena, Cristo, Fariseo: Cingan pure quest'alma
05. Aria. Maddalena: Chi con sua cetra
06. Recitativo. Amor Terreno, Amor Celeste, Fariseo, Maddalena: Maddalena, deh, ferma!
07. Aria. Maddalena: In lagrime stemprato il cor qui cade
08. Recitativo. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno, Cristo: Oh ciel, chi vide mai la penitenza
09. Aria. Cristo: Ride il ciel e gl'astri brillano
10. Recitativo. Amor Celeste, Amor Terreno: A tuo dispetto, Amor Terreno
11. Aria. Amor Celeste: Me ne rido di tue glorie
12. Recitativo. Amor Terreno: Se non ho forza a superar costei
13. Aria. Amor Terreno: Orribili, terribili
14. Recitativo. Marta, Maddalena: Maddalena, costanza
15. Aria. Marta: O fortunate lacrime
16. Recitativo. Maddalena, Fariseo: Mio Dio, mio Redentor
17. Aria. Fariseo: Chi drizzar di pianta adulta
18. Recitativo. Maddalena: D'esser costante, o mio Gesù, non temo
19. Aria. Maddalena: Per il mar del pianto mio
20. Recitativo. Cristo: L'atto immenso che, uscito
21. Aria. Cristo: Del senso soggiogar
22. Recitativo. Amor Celeste: Di miei dardi possenti
23. Aria. Amor Celeste: Da quel strale che stilla veleno
24. Recitativo. Fariseo: Sempre dagl'astri scende
25. Aria. Fariseo: Questi sono arcani ignoti
26. Recitativo. Amor Celeste: Cittadini del ciel
27. Aria. Amor Celeste: Sù, lieti festeggiate
28. Recitativo. Amor Terreno: Voi, che in mirarmi oppresso ogn'or godete
29. Aria. Amor Terreno: Voi del Tartaro
30. Recitativo. Cristo, Maddalena: Va dunque Maddalena
31. Aria. Maddalena: Chi serva la beltà


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