Conversione Di Maddalena - Bononcini / Palomba / Venexiana - Music - GLO - 8424562209442 - May 22, 2020
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Conversione Di Maddalena

Bononcini / Palomba / Venexiana

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Conversione Di Maddalena

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. The extremely popular story of Mary Magdalene - a subject among the most fascinating in the Baroque spirituality of the Counter-reformation - is dealt with in original terms by the anonymous author of the libretto, who through a suggestive use of poetry "places on stage" the difficult journey of conversion of the sinner saint. Mary Magdalene is urged by the percussive incitement of her sister Marta (like in the painting of Caravaggio), who at the end of several stages of a contradicting drama plot, will succeed in winning her over to the field of Sacred Love, making vain the offers and threats of Profane Love.


MARTA FUMAGALLI/EMANUELA GALLI

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 2
Released May 22, 2020
EAN/UPC 8424562209442
Label GLO GSA920944.2
Genre Classical
Dimensions 126 × 138 × 14 mm   ·   130 g
Orchestra La Venexiana
Soloist Marta Fumagalli / Emanuela Galli