Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) Mayr: Motetten Vol. 1 - Venezianische Solo-Motetten (CD)

Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) Mayr (1763-1845)

Andrea Lauren Brown, Markus Schäfer, Virgil Mischok, I Virtuosi Italiani, Franz Hauk

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Regina coeli G-Dur; Exsurge, anima D-Dur; Salve Regina C-Dur, F-Dur, B-Dur; Me miserum, quid hoc c-moll; O Deus, quot me circumdant Es-Dur; Qual colpa eterno Dio c-moll

Artists:: Andrea Lauren Brown, Markus Schäfer, Virgil Mischok, I Virtuosi Italiani, Franz Hauk
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2014
Item number:: 8237742
UPC/EAN:: 0747313381173
Release date:: 8.6.2018

Johann Simon Mayr wurde in der Zeit vor Rossini zu einem der populärsten Opernkomponisten in Europa, aber seine jüngere Karriere in den letzten Jahrzehnten des 18. Jahrhunderts war weitgehend kirchenmusikalisch geprägt und teilte seine Zeit zwischen seiner Heimat Bergamo und Venedig auf. Seine venezianischen Solo-Motetten, die oft die Form kleiner religiöser Opern in kleinem Maßstab annahmen, waren für die Sänger jener Zeit maßgeschneidert, mit bemerkenswerten Ergebnissen, wie man in der aufsteigenden Ausdruckskraft von Exsurge, anima, den Melodien im Cavatina-Stil von O Deus, zitiere ich circumdant, und den kontrastierenden Atmosphären von Angst, Furcht und Gelassenheit in Qual colpa eterno Dio hören kann.

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Johann Simon Mayr became one of the most popular opera composers in Europe in the period preceding Rossini, but his younger career in the last decades of the 18th century was largely as a church musician, dividing his time between his native Bergamo and Venice. Often taking the form of small-scale religious operas, his Venetian solo motets were tailor-made for the singers of the day, with notable results, as can be heard in the soaring expressiveness of Exsurge, anima, the cavatina-style melodies of O Deus, quot me circumdant, and the contrasting atmospheres of fear, dread and serenity in Qual colpa eterno Dio.