Falvetti: Il diluvio universale

Magali Arnault (Acqua), Mariana Flores (Rad), Caroline Weynants (Natura humana), Evelyn Ramirez Munoz (Giustizia Divina), Fabián Schofrin (Morte), Fernando Guimarães (Noè), Matteo Bellotto (Dio) & Keyvan Chemirani (Zarb, Oud, Darf)

Cappella Mediterranea & Namur Chamber Choir, Leonardo...

this disc is not just some worthy exhumation but the rehabilitation of an composition bursting with imagination and gripping drama...There is indeed something 'other' about this piece, a hint... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

Release Date: 3rd Oct 2011
Catalogue No: AMY026
Label: Ambronay
Length: 64 minutes

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March 2012

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Falvetti: Il diluvio universale, Act I "In Cielo"

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Evelyn Ramirez-Muñoz, Magali Arnault, Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

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Troppo, ah troppo soffersi

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A’ miei cenni ubbidienti

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O Giustizia Divina

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Seguaci del mio volere

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Scoppijn gravidi

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Gli protervi nel mar

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Del tuo divino impero

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Le nubi funeste

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Falvetti: Il diluvio universale, Act II "In Terra"

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Fernando Guimarães, Matteo Bellotto, Mariana Flores, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Dolce sposo Noè

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Il Gran Dio di pietà

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Divin Monarca

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Motor Divino

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Sì mie potenze armatevi

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I tuoi decreti

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Dal naufragio comune

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Grazie a la man tonante

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Empij mortali

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Falvetti: Il diluvio universale, Act III "Il diluvio"

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Fabián Schofrin, Caroline Weynants, Cappella Mediterranea, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón

Sinfonia di tempeste (A fuggire)

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Da le caverne oscure

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E chi mi dà aita

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La morte ingoio

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Son pur’io (No’l vedete)

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Apritemi il varco a la Morte

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Ahi che nel fin

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Ho pur vinto

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Falvetti: Il diluvio universale, Act IV "In l’arca di Noè"

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Mariana Flores, Fernando Guimarães, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón, Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Placati Dio di bontà

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Mio core festeggia

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Cangia dolce mio Dio

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Ecco l’Iride paciera

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Or se tra sacre Olive

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Il diluvio universale has lain forgotten for three centuries and displays an originality unparalleled in the history of the Italian oratorio. What image is more powerful than the Flood for a composer, choirmaster of a city ravaged by earthquakes and tidal waves? In 1682, this was the theme that inspired Michelangelo Falvetti to write his oratorio, in Messina, Sicily.

Leonardo Garciá Alarcón has collaborated with the Iranian master of percussion, Keyvan Chemirani on the restoration of Falvetti’s Baroque masterpiece, performed at the Ambronay Festival in 2010. Keyvan has restored to us the elements of improvisation often lost by blindly following a score. In Sicily, especially, these elements are still a living presence in folk music.

The story is taken from one of the best-known and most catastrophic episodes in the Old Testament: the Lord, weary of earthly wickedness and corruption, decides to exterminate humanity by making it rain continuously for 40 days and 40 nights. He will spare only Noah, his family, and the animals of each species which He has ordered to be given shelter in the Ark. The subject is splendidly suited to dramatic treatment, and librettist Vincenzo Giattini and Falvetti take full advantage of this throughout the piece. The listener will long remember the tender duet between Noah and his wife Rad; rain overwhelms the desperate chorus, the final light of hope. Fascinated by the voice and a keen exponent of musicological research, Leonardo García Alarcón is regarded as one of the key artists of the new generation of conductors specialising in Baroque music. In 2005 he founded Cappella Mediterranea, which he directs, and he has been artistic director of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur since January 2010. For Ambronay Éditions, he has already recorded programmes of music by Peter Phillips, Barbara Strozzi, Handel’s Judas Maccabæus, Purcell’s Dido and Æneas and Vivaldi’s Vespro a san Marco.

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Cappella Mediterranea & Namur Chamber Choir, Leonardo Garciá Alarcón

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March 2012

this disc is not just some worthy exhumation but the rehabilitation of an composition bursting with imagination and gripping drama...There is indeed something 'other' about this piece, a hint of some ancient energy that perhaps reflects how Sicily itself differs from the rest of Italian. The performers make the most of the lovely present they have been handed

6th October 2011

the way the music seizes on all the dramatic possibilities of the text hints that it could just have been the sheer theatrical potential of the story that appealed so much to the composer...The solo voices have a reedy, throaty edge, the choral singing is robust, and there's a real energy about it all.

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