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Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Un Concert de Noël | Hortus Harmonicus Festival
I musici del Gran Principe
Samuele Lastrucci, conductor
Lili Aymonino, dessus
Valentina Fin, dessus
Emma Alessi Innocenti, dessus
Gabriel Belkheiri, haute contre
Marco Angioloni, taille
Francesco Masilla, basse
Matteo Saccà, violin
Rossella Pugliano, violin
Giulia Serio, baroque flute
Giuditta Isoldi, baroque flute
Johanna Lopez,
Tommaso Tarsi, theorbo
Programme
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704)
Antiphona sine organo ad virginem “Sub tuum præsidium”, H. 28
In Assumptione Beata Mariae Virginis, H. 353
Ad beatam Virginem canticum, H. 340
Salve Regina H. 27
Magnificat, H. 73
Litanies de la Vierge, H. 83
Notes to the program
The Marian nucleus presented here offers an exemplary sample of the Charpentierian synthesis between Italian vocabulary learned from Carissimi and elegant French taste. French chapel forms and organics parade in the chosen program, from the bare splendor of the “Antiphona sine organo ad Virginem” H. 28 (Sub tuum praesidium), for three a cappella dessus, to the sweeping fresco of the “In Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis” H. 353, where choral and solo invocations, imitative-concert sections alternate episodes of relaxation with litanean refrains. The canticle “Ad beatam Virginem” H. 340 chisels a trio Haute-contre, Taille and Basse with concertante instruments and continuo, in fine timbral balance and affective suspensions. The “Salve Regina” H. 27, is conceived as a solo intermediate entrusted to the soprano voice. The “Magnificat” H. 73 distills the poetics of the male voice trio on chaconne bass, varying the affects between humilitas and exaltatio. The “Litanies de la Vierge” H. 83 closes: chain of invocations according to Parisian praxis, with luminous progressions, persuasive modulations and wide-ranging devotional culmination.
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