- Audio CD (Jan 11 2005)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Hybrid SACD, Import
- Label: Avie
- ASIN: B0006BAUIA
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Fifty Six Vespers Honoring the Patron of Music: St. Cecilia, April 2 2006
By Grady Harp - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (Audio CD)
For an absolutely enchanting experience this 2 CD set of all of the vespers composed by Alessandro Scarlatti honoring the essence of music - St. Cecilia - is inimitable. Here is more Scarlatti than you ever knew was available and in the entire 56 works there is not a weak link.Nicholas McGegan conducts the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale with a bevy of superb soloists - Susanne Ryden, Dominique Labelle, Michael Slattery who makes a very impressive debut - a tenor with style and flair whose career is young but very promising, Ryland Angel, Gonzalo X. Ruiz and Neal Davis - in lilting and dramatic performances, each one fresh and inventive, and each one performed with McGegan's usual penchant for understanding period music.
The recorded sound is superb: the first CD was recorded during a live performance and the second CD is a studio production. But the sonics of both are superb. This is music to transport us to another era and reinforces the fact that Scarlatti was a brilliant, forward-looking composer. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, April 06
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Glorious celebration of the patron saint of music, Feb 2 2005
By Trollope - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (Audio CD)
A. Scarlatti's vespers for St Cecilia's Day are given a wonderfully alert live performance by Nic McGegan and the Philharmonia Barqoue. Nic's specialization in Scarlatti's dramatic choral works pays off brilliantly here with some superb contributions from the soloists including the stellar soprano Dominique Labbelle
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Great recording of an underestimated composer, Nov 22 2007
By Eric Falardeau - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Alessandro Scarlatti: The Cecilian Vespers (Audio CD)
Interpretation and sound are superb and give justice to these masterpieces of a great composer far too often neglected! As always with Scarlatti, one wonders at the modernity of his sacred music (it sounds like Mozart as a young adult) and his cunning use of the instruments to create a tapestry of textures that tells the untold tale behind the words and the singers.
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