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Václav Luks, Collegium 1704 - Jan Dismas Zelenka: I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63 (2009)

Posted By: ArlegZ

Date: 27 Oct 2023 21:40:22

Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka is a strong candidate for the greatest rediscovery of the Baroque revival. He worked for most of his career in Dresden (the booklet, in French and English, goes into a great deal of detail about the political determinants and musical implications of this fact), and Bach, who didn't admire many composers, admired him. Each new Zelenka work that emerges, if competently performed, seems to astonish, and I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore, ZWV 63 (The Penitents at the Sepulchre of the Redeemer), composed late in Zelenka's career in 1736, is no exception. The work is a bit hard to get a grip on because of its odd genre. Annotator Vacláv Luks calls it a "sepolcro oratorio": it is a little religious semi-drama based on the idea that biblical figures, who may not (as in this case) actually meet in the Bible at all, gather at Christ's tomb and contemplate his divine mysteries. The benefit of this rather artificial device is that biblical stories can be massaged into quasi-operatic sentiments. The libretto of this roughly hour-long Italian-language work, by the Padua-to-Dresden transplant Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, features arias by the unlikely trio of King David (Davidde), Mary Magdalene (Maddalena), and St. Peter (Pietro). For the most part they wouldn't have been out of place in an opera by Hasse, Zelenka's rival at the Dresden court; sample Peter's "Lingua perfidia" (Perfidious Tongue, referring to the snake in the garden of Eden), track 7, for an idea of how closely Zelenka's melodic writing approximated the high and then quite new opera seria style of the middle eighteenth century: it is flashy, passionate, and both vocally and instrumentally fancy stuff. The three vocal soloists on this Czech release all acquit themselves well, but the real shocks that make Zelenka so much fun come in the instrumental parts, vigorously and accurately rendered by the historical-instrument ensemble Collegium 1704. The use of pizzicato to depict the words "Le tue corde, arpe sonora" (Your strings, sonorous harp, track 11) is something another composer might have thought of, but the massive extension of the pizzicato passage is pure Zelenka. There are lots of other surprises in the instrumental writing, and the whole work is entirely worthy of this fascinating composer. The sound recording, from a Prague castle, is superb. This Czech ensemble is to be commended for its effective championing of music from its home ground.
–James Manheim

Performer:
Maddalena – Mariana Rewerski, alto
Davidde – Eric Stoklossa, tenor
Pietro – Tobias Berndt, basse
Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704
Václav Luks, direction

Tracklist
Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679-1745)
I Penitenti al Sepolchro del Redentore ZWV 63
01. Adagio - Andante - Adagio [Sinfonia]
02. Aria Davidde:- Squarcia le chiome
03. Recitativo secco Davidde: Tramontata è la Stella
04. Recitativo accompagnato Maddalena: Oimè, quasi nel campo
05. Aria Maddalena: Del mio amor, divini sguardi
06. Recitativo secco Pietro: Quai la dispersa greggia
07. Aria Pietro: Lingua perfida
08. Recitativo secco Maddalena: Per la traccia del sangue
09. Aria Maddalena: Da vivo tronco aperto
10. Recitativo accompagnato Davidde: Questa che fu possente
11. Aria Davidde: Le tue corde, arpe sonora
12. Recitativo secco Pietro: Tributo accetto più, più grato dono / Recitativo secco Maddalena: Al divin nostro amante
13. Coro e Aria Davidde: Miserere mio Dio

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