Passio Secundum Johannem

 
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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Passio Secundum Johannem
Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano) / Millenium, Choeur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon

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Release Date: Friday 24 February 2017

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Alessandro Scarlatti's St John Passion was the first Passion setting written in seventeenth-century Italy. Scarlatti treats the role of the Evangelist (composed in the mezzo-soprano register) in highly unusual fashion, giving his narrative numerous emotional passages.

The Voice of Christ (bass) is invariably haloed by a string accompaniment. The version presented by Leonardo García Alarcón inserts meditations assigned to the chorus; these are taken from Scarlatti's Responsories for Holy Week, polyphonic settings that reveal a little-known genre practised by this composer.