Vivica Genaux – Hommage A Vivaldi (2018) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

The virtuosic performance of Vienna Bach Consort conducted by its genius maestro Ruben Dubrovsky at Vienna’s St. Stephan’s Cathedral will carry its audience along to original sound impressions of Vivaldi’s time. The magnificent setting of St. Stephan’s Cathedral and the artistic peak of orchestra and conductor will be enhanced by the appearance of the adorable Vivica Genaux. The US-mezzosoprano is famous for her extraordinary interpretation of baroque repertoire. This concert captivates with its exceptional relation of sacral music and acoustic impressions. Vienna Bach Consort featuring mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, conducted by Ruben Dubrovsky: an exceptional music experience!

The great American mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux returns here in an album given over to Vivaldi’s religious works, a repertoire in which she excels superbly. There are in fact no fewer than 28 roles in the baroque realm which she performs with a joyful virtuosity, which never borders on the hysteria we see in some of her peers’ performances.

Recorded at Vienna’s Stephansdom in 2015, with the excellent Bach Consort Wien conducted by its Argentine founder Rubén Dubrovsky, this Hommage à Vivaldi offers up religious works of great expressive power, alternating between pieces as different as the motets In turbato mare irato and Sum in medio tempestatum, and the ambitious setting-to-music of the famous psalm Nisi Dominus. Here, we discover an inspired Vivaldi in his lesser-known works, such as the poignant Kyrie in G Minor with his daring chromatisms or the Credo in E Minor and its finely-sculpted instrumentation.

With a supple, warm voice, Vivica Genaux tackles melismas in Vivaldi’s phrases with an unsettling ease, and brings a consummate art to ornamentations and “coloraturas which seem to be born from the wind”, in the delightful phrase of a music critic in the German weekly Die Zeit. The Bach Consort Wien accompanies these holy works with the contagious joy that reigned in the happy-go-lucky Vienna of the 18th century, when operatic theatres were as numerous as churches. – François Hudry

Tracklist:
1. In turbato mare irato, RV 627 : I. In turbato mare irato 06:23
2. In turbato mare irato, RV 627 : II. Splende serena 00:48
3. In turbato mare irato, RV 627 : III. Resplende bella divina stella 06:26
4. In turbato mare irato, RV 627 : IV. Alleluia 02:17
5. Kyrie in G Minor, RV 587 : I. Adagio 04:28
6. Kyrie in G Minor, RV 587 : II. Allegro 02:35
7. Kyrie in G Minor, RV 587 : III. Allegro 02:23
8. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : I. Nisi Dominus (Allegro) 02:28
9. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : II. Vanum est vobis (Largo) 01:10
10. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : III. Surgite (Presto) 01:35
11. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : IV. Cum dederit (Andante) 04:49
12. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : V. Sicut sagittae (Allegro) 01:25
13. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : VI. Beatus vir (Andante) 01:11
14. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : VII. Gloria Patri (Larghetto) 04:22
15. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : VIII. Sicut erat in principio (Allegro) 01:00
16. Nisi Dominus, RV 608 : IX. Amen (Allegro) 01:42
17. Credo in E Minor, RV 591 : I. Credo in unum Deum 02:15
18. Credo in E Minor, RV 591 : II. Et incarnatus est 01:23
19. Credo in E Minor, RV 591 : III. Crucifixus 02:33
20. Credo in E Minor, RV 591 : IV. Et resurrexit 03:03
21. Sum in medio tempestatum, RV 632 : I. Sum in medio tempestatum 06:56
22. Sum in medio tempestatum, RV 632 : II. Quid ergo faciam, infelix anima 00:57
23. Sum in medio tempestatum, RV 632 : III. Semper maesta, sconsolata 06:50
24. Sum in medio tempestatum, RV 632 : IV. Alleluia 03:01

Personnel:
Vivica Genaux, mezzo-soprano
Bach Consort Wien
Rubén Dubrovsky, conductor

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