Marcello Panni, Orchestra Allesandro Scarlatti di Napoli - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Morte di San Giuseppe (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 521 Mb | Total time: 109:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Fonit | # 0927 43308-2 | Recorded: 1990
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 521 Mb | Total time: 109:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Fonit | # 0927 43308-2 | Recorded: 1990
La morte di San Giuseppe (The Death of St. Joseph) is a fascinating curiosity from the pen of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the Italian composer of La serva padrona – the little intermezzo through which the irreverent breezes of Mozartian opera first blew. This recording is a world premiere of La morte di San Giuseppe, which was known to scholars through fragmentary manuscripts in European libraries but for which a full autograph manuscript only recently surfaced. Designated as an oratorio, the work depicts the death of Joseph, husband of Mary. It features three characters in addition to Joseph, a tenor; St. Michael and Divine Love, both sopranos; and Mary, a contralto.