Maurizio Cazzati - Mottets for Bass & Sonatas
In the XVIIc. music scene, the Emilian composer Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678) certainly plays a prominent role for his multiform and varied activity.
The consistency of his printed musical production is truly weighty, especially for the canons of the time: Cazzati published 66 opus numbers in less than forty years (from 1641 to 1678), for a total of over one hundred separate editions, including the reprints.
In his works Cazzati ranges between different writing techniques: from the most severe counterpoint of sacred music, to the stile concertato of the secular vocal repertoire, not to mention the idiomatic instrumental music; he uses and combine those techniques in an innovative way often combining old and new music languages.
The program "Maurizio Cazzati - Motets for bass and sonatas", recorded for Pan Classics by baritone Mauro Borgioni together with the ensemble Seicento Stravagante, wants to celebrate the composer’s creativity, highlighting Cazzati’s way in which he concerts voices and instruments, in a fusion of momentum to the divine and human passions: a dialogue between low voice and heavenly instruments, rich in colors and sonorities.
Mauro Borgioni - Baritone
Seicento Stravagante:
David Brutti - cornetto, cornetto muto
Rossella Croce - violin
Nicola Lamon - organ, harpsichord and regale
Program
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Sonata sesta “La Giralda”
from “Suonate a due violini” Bologna 1659
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Annuntio vobis. Per un Santo.
All’Signor Don Guiseppe Paini Musico
Dell’Altezza Serenissima di Modena
from “Mottetti a voce sola con due violini Opera LI” Antwerpen, 1682
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Stillae sparse per me
Sopra la Passione di Nostro Signore. Volgar, latino.
from “L’ottavo libro dei mottetti a voce sola, op. 65” 1678
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Capriccio di durezze
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
La Pezzola. Violino solo overo Violino e Basso
from “Il secondo libro delle sonate a una, doi... Opera ottava” Venezia, 1648
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Dulcis amor. Del Santissimo Sacramento
from “L’ottavo libro dei mottetti a voce sola, op. 65” 1678
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Sonata quarta “La Calcagnina”
from “Suonate a due violini” Bologna 1659
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Regina coeli
from “Le quattro antifone annuali della B. V. Maria, op.42” 1667
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzon seconda detta La Sabbatina
Maurizio Cazzati (1616-1678)
Eja crudeles. Per un Martire, o per il Santissimo
from “Mottetti a voce sola con due violini Opera LI” Antwerpen, 1682