Julia Lezhneva – Vivaldi: Gloria – Nisi Dominus – Nulla in mundo pax (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

An organist (he worked with Gaston Litaize in Paris), choirmaster, and conductor, Diego Fasolis is a vital part of baroque music. In 1995 he founded the Vanitas ensemble in Lugano, and then I Barocchisti (“the Baroques”) which represents the refoundation of the famous Società cameristica di Lugano set up by Loehrer in 1961 to which we owe the first great recordings of Claudio Monteverdi’s Madrigals. The ensemble took a great leap forward in its new incarnation under Fasolis’ baton. The Barocchisti recordings have been showered with awards and great international soloists regularly come to collaborate with them, including Philippe Jaroussky, Maurice Steger, Max Emanuel Cencic, and, in recent years, Cecilia Bartoli who has set up a close collaboration.

With Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva and Argentine counter-tenor Franco Fagioli, I Barocchisti offer us a particularly joyful vision of two of Vivaldi’s vocal masterpieces, wreathed in the same slightly-naive halo as worn by the Madonnas painted in all of Venice’s churches. The motet Nulla in mundo pax for soprano and continuo completes this radiant Vivaldi album with its image of an ideal world nestled in a comforting bubble.

Tracklist:
01. Diego Fasolis & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-1. Gloria in excelsis (02:21)
02. Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera and Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-2. Et in terra pax (04:24)
03. Diego Fasolis & Franco Fagioli & Julia Lezhneva & I Barocchisti & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-3. Laudamus te (02:05)
04. Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-4. Gratias agimus tibi (00:24)
05. I Barocchisti & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-5. Propter magnum gloriam (00:56)
06. Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti & Julia Lezhneva & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-6. Domine Deus, Rex Coelestis (03:44)
07. Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera and Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-7. Domini fili unigenite (02:09)
08. I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis & Franco Fagioli & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-8. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (04:04)
09. Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-9. Qui tollis peccata mundi (01:15)
10. I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis & Franco Fagioli – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-10. Qui sedes ad dexteram patris (02:01)
11. I Barocchisti & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-11. Quoniam tu solus sanctus (00:48)
12. I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera – Vivaldi: Gloria in D Major, RV 589-12. Cum Sancto Spiritu (03:06)
13. Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti & Franco Fagioli – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-1. “Nisi Dominus” (Allegro) (02:35)
14. Franco Fagioli & Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-2. “Vanum est vobis” (Largo) (01:14)
15. Franco Fagioli & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-3. “Surgite” (Presto) (01:22)
16. Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti & Franco Fagioli – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-4. “Cum dederit” (Andante) (04:03)
17. Franco Fagioli & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-5. “Sicut sagittae” (Allegro) (01:30)
18. I Barocchisti & Franco Fagioli & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-6. “Beatus vir” (Andante) (00:59)
19. Franco Fagioli & Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-7. “Gloria Patri” (Larghetto) (04:12)
20. Diego Fasolis & Franco Fagioli & I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-8. “Sicut erat in principio” (Allegro) (00:58)
21. I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis & Franco Fagioli – Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus, RV 608-9. “Amen” (Allegro) (01:31)
22. Julia Lezhneva & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-1. Nulla in mundo pax (Larghetto) (07:09)
23. Julia Lezhneva & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-2. Blando colore (Recitativo) (01:08)
24. Julia Lezhneva & I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis – Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-3. Spirat anguis inter flores (Allegro) (03:02)
25. Diego Fasolis & Julia Lezhneva & I Barocchisti – Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax, RV 630-4. Alleluia (Allegro) (01:57)