FABELLAE SACRAE: Italian motets of the 17th century (CD)

Ancient tales and sacred legends in Italian motets of the 17th cent.


Giovanni Ghizzolo (c. 1580 Brescia – c. 1625 Novara)                           

1          Benedicite Deum caeli (Tobit)

            Seconda raccolta de sacri canti, Venezia, 1624

Erasmo Marotta (c. 1568 Randazzo – 1641 Palermo)                             

2          Fecit Deus (S. Ignatius & S. Xavier)

            Raccolta di mottetti, Libro Primo, Palermo, 1635

Giacomo Carissimi (1605 Marino – 1674 Roma) 

3          Laudemus virum gloriosum (motet for a saint)

 Sacri concerti musicali, Roma, 1675

Francesco Lombardi (c. 1587 Napoli – 1642 ibd.)                                           

4          Toccata

 Manuscript, GB-Lbm Add. 30491

Barbara Strozzi (c. 1619 Venezia – c. 1664 ibd.)                                             

5          In medio maris (S. Peter)

            Sacri musicali affetti, Venezia, 1655

Giacomo Carissimi

6          Vanitas vanitatum (The rich man and the beggar)

 MS Rés. f. 934b – entier – 64812 from the Library of the Conservatoire de Paris

Giovanni Ghizzolo               

7          Jubilemus et laetemur omnes (Mary Magdalene)

            Seconda raccolta de sacri canti, Venezia, 1624

Erasmo Marotta

8          Quis mihi det (Song of Songs)

 Raccolta di mottetti, Libro Primo, Palermo, 1635

Giovanni Battista Treviso (fl. mid-17th century) 

9          Gaudete omnes (motet for a saint)

 Motetti a voce sola de diversi eccelentissimi autori, Libro Primo, Venezia, 1645

Mario Capuana (? – before 1647)      

10        Parce mihi, Domine (Job)

 Mottetti, opera terza, Venezia, 1649

Michelangelo Rossi (c. 1601 Genova – 1656 or 1670 Roma)                    

11        Toccata Seconda

 Toccate e Correnti d’intavolatura d’organo e cibal, Roma, 1657

Sigismondo D’India (c. 1580 Palermo - c. 1629 Modena?)      

12        Osculare, o beata peccatrix (Mary Magdalene)

 Novi concentus ecclesiastici, Venezia, 1610

Tarquinio Merula (c. 1595 Cremona - 1665 ibd.)    

13        Hor ch’è tempo di dormire (Mary and Jesus)

 Curtio precipitato et altri capricij composti in diversi modi, Libro secondo, Venezia, 1638

Giovanni de Macque (c. 1550 Valenciennes – 1614 Napoli)      

14        Seconde Stravaganze                                                                            

15        Prima Gagliarda                                                                                        

 Manuscript London, Brit. Libr. Add. MS 30491

Sigismondo D’India                                                           

16        Dilectus meus (Song of Songs)

 Novi concentus ecclesiastici, Venezia, 1610

Giovanni Felice Sances (c. 1600 Roma – 1679 Wien)                                      

17        Ardet cor meum (Song of Songs)

 Motetti a una, due, tre e quattro voci, Venezia, 1638

Giovanni Rovetta (c. 1596 Venezia – 1668 ibd.)                                             

18        In caelis hodie iubilant sancti (Mary)

 Seconda raccolta de sacri canti, Venezia, 1624