Donizetti: Vesper Psalms

Simon Mayr Chorus;
Concerto de Bassus;
Hauk, Franz

8.573910

Andrea Lauren Brown and Anna Feith, Sopranos • Johanna Krödel and Veronika Sammer, Altos • Markus Schäfer and Christoph Rosenbaum, Tenors • Daniel Ochoa and Niklas Mallmann, Basses • Gaetano Donizetti is renowned as a leading composer of the Italian romantic bel canto opera style during the first half of the 19th century. But in his earlier years and as a student of Simon Mayr his dramatic genius came to the fore in his settings of psalm texts for Vespers, a form then still popular in Italy both in secular and liturgical contexts. Donizetti’s Vesper Psalms are characterised by beautifully shaped operatic melodies and colourful orchestration on a grand scale, creating moments of real rhetorical force – outstanding features of works that have lain undiscovered in manuscript form for two centuries.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

01-04-2019

0747313391073