Artist: Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
Album: Vivaldi: Musica sacra per alto
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2019
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 59:45
Total Tracks: 17
Total Size: 1,12 GB

Tracklist:

01. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: I. Filiae maestae Jerusalem (01:42)
02. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: II. Sileant zephyri (06:02)
03. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Filiae maestae Jerusalem, RV 638: III. Sed tenebris diffusis (00:57)
04. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Giangrande – Hymnus Deus tuorum militum, RV 612 (03:56)
05. Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: I. Allegro (05:33)
06. Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: II. Largo (04:22)
07. Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Violin Concerto in D Major, RV 582: III. Allegro (07:31)
08. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: I. Salve Regina (03:48)
09. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: II. Ad te clamamus (01:37)
10. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: III. Ad te suspiramus (03:10)
11. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: IV. Eia ergo (01:33)
12. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: V. Et Jesum benedictum (01:47)
13. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone, Alessandro Tampieri – Salve Regina, RV 618: VI. O clemens, o pia (02:32)
14. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: I. Non in pratis aut in hortis (01:58)
15. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: II. Pro me caput spinas habet (08:16)
16. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Introduzione al Miserere non in pratis: III. Quæsone facias, Domine (00:52)
17. Delphine Galou, Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone – Regina coeli, RV 615 (04:01)

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When it comes to posterity, Vivaldi has been quite lucky. Thanks to a series of happy accidents, his personal manuscript collection has survived through the centuries, allowing his music to be preserved and later played and recorded. Contralto Delphine Galou and Ottavio Dantone, the director of the Accademia Bizantina, drew from this invaluable batch of nearly 450 compositions to develop this album’s program of sacred music dedicated to the alto voice.This recording includes two “introdutioni” for alto, a kind of motet whose form would have been devised by Vivaldi for his Venetian work for the Pietà. You can also find the vespertine hymn Deus tuorum militum for alto and tenor (Alessandro Giangrande), as well as a Regina coeli, a Marian antiphon played on Easter Sunday.

At the heart of this album is a violin concerto written for the day of the The Assumption of Mary (August 15th). The importance of this celebration in the Italian liturgical calendar is underlined here by a score of an unusual length for a Vivaldi concerto, with it being divided into two orchestral parts that exchange a sometimes and sometimes joyous dialogue. Written for his student Anna Maria, the solo violin part preserved in the archives is played here by Alessandro Tampieri, who has once again enriched it with a very virtuoso “capriccio” of his own making. – François Hudry