La Venexiana

La Venexiana – Bononcini: La conversione di Maddalena (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:45:10 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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Giovanni Bononcini composed the four part oratorio La Conversione di Maddalena for the Habsburg emperor Leopold I in 1701. The musician from Modena, at the time at the apex of his European fame, had at his disposal the best forces of the Imperial Chapel: four singers (two sopranos, a contralto and a bass) of top rate and an instrumental ensemble, limited to strings but adequately consistent to articulate a concert dialectic with tutti-concertino, including soloist pages for the violin, the cello and the viola da gamba.

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