G.P. COLONNA, MASS IN E MINOR
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2021
- Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695)
Messe en mi mineur
Gwendoline Blondeel Soprano
Mariana Flores Soprano
Christopher Lowrey Alto
Fabio Trümpy Tenor
Andreas Wolf Bass
Choeur de chambre de Namur
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón Conductor
Bach was only ten years old when one of Italy's most glorious musicians, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, died in Bologna in 1695. Aged 58, his death deprived him of the appointment to Saint Peter's in Rome that Pope Innocent XII had just proposed to him.
Born in 1637 like Buxtehude, Colonna spent most of his career at the Bologna cathedral, while working for the grandest Italian courts, including the Medici in Florence. His style, marked by majesty and brilliance, between Carissimi’s and Handel’s, rank him high major in the modernisation of Italian music. Emperor Leopold I possessed all of his sacred works in Vienna, and Sebastien de Brossard considered him "the master of masters".
Here is an opportunity to discover this specialist in counterpoint and vocal virtuosity, by presenting his splendid Mass in E minor together with Bach's famous Magnificat composed four decades later. A rare assemblage, the fruit of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon's passion!
This concert was recorded by France Musique in Versailles 
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Meravigliosa
Sublime
Compare the opening setting of the words, "Kyrie eleison" to Bach's celebrated, vaunted Mass in b. I will not judge which is superior music. I will, however, assert that there are eerie melodic and structural perils. Let those with doctorates in music debate whether Bach could have known this work, or whether there was some parallel rediscovery of what I would call, "musical truth".
I pride myself in having studied and loved the Baroque for over 50 years. Never, in my overconfidence, did I explore Colonna's efforts, until today -- and almost by accident. I am inexpressibly humbled -- this is masterwork of the first class. For me, it eclipses Alessandro Scarlatti.
I have just realized that you said the same as I did. But you said it two years before me. I am perplexed just like you with the same question. Have you found any explanations since then?
A fantastic mass. Thanks for uploading it. Anticipates the pinnacle of the baroque masses, the B-minor mass. Very much. Or am I mistaken? Or is it something everyone knows except me?
Sorry, can anyone tell me why I think that this Kyrie resembles the Kyrie from the B-minor mass by J. S, Bach? And not only the Kyrie. Might there be any kind of connection? Or is it merely-purely accidental? Help me, please.
Thanks.
Capolavoro
Somptueux
Hello. I have to agree with you. Kinda eerie isn't the similarity...