Paradisi Gloria (Scarlatti, Rubino, Lotti, Vivaldi)

Featuring

Jean-Philippe Sarcos
Choeur Le Palais Royal
Domenico Scarlatti
Bonaventura Rubino
Antonio Lotti
Antonio Vivaldi

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Composer Biography

Bonaventura Rubino, a Franciscan friar born near Bergamo, served as choirmaster of Palermo Cathedral from 1643 to 1665, and his compositions were published in no fewer than seven volumes.

Interpretation

Le Palais Royal, the ensemble performing on this album, aims to recapture the color, freedom, and enthusiasm of 18th-century Italian Baroque music, including the exact colors of a living Latin.

Interpretation

The conductor, Jean-Philippe Sarcos, chose to embrace risk-taking and human imperfection in this recording to respect the unexpected, exciting, and real aspects of life in the music.

Composer Biography

Antonio Lotti, a Venetian composer, spent most of his career at San Marco as a violist, organist, and choirmaster, illustrating the transition between late Baroque and Classicism.

Compositional Technique

Vivaldi's religious music, often composed for the Ospedale della Pietà, demonstrates an incredible palette of effects, combining vigorous rhythms, prodigious ornamentation, and frequent contrasts of nuance, density, and timbre.

Composition History

Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater for 10 voices may have been composed between 1715 and 1718 when he was choirmaster of the Vatican's Cappella Giulia, suggesting it was intended for experienced singers.