Cracovie 2019 : MISERERE MEI, DEUS

Concert recorded during the Misteria Paschalia festival at the ICE Krakow Congress Center in Cracow, poland (April 18th 2019)

Concerto Italiano
Conductor : Rinaldo Alessandrini

Sonia Tedla soprano
Enrico Torre alto
Luca Cervoni ténor
Salvo Vitale basse

Polish Radio Choir
Choirmaster : Maria Piotrowska-Bogalecka

Programme :
Antonio Vivaldi - Credo en mi mineur RV 591
Giovanni Bononcini - Stabat Mater en do mineur
Leonardo Leo - Miserere pour double chœur et continuo

Rinaldo Alessandrini compares sacred masterworks of the best representatives of three Italian schools: Vivaldi from Venice, Bononcini from Bologna and Leonardo Leo from Naples. Vivaldi’s Credo, is considered among his most important pieces of sacred music, while Bononcini’s Stabat Mater offers one of the best known musical settings of this famous liturgical text. In turn, the 8-voice Miserere by Leo was admired by great Romantic composers such as Verdi and Wagner, and in the modern times by Riccardo Muti. The performance restores the enchanting effects of the religious music of the early 18th century.