{"id":8949,"date":"2011-08-09T11:53:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/post-discographie\/giorgi-ave-maria\/"},"modified":"2023-10-15T16:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T14:55:05","slug":"giorgi-ave-maria","status":"publish","type":"post-discographie","link":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/en\/post-discographie\/giorgi-ave-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"Giorgi, Ave Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe music of Giovanni Giorgi and his contemporaries allows us to unearth the treasures of the Roman chapels and better understand the history of contrapuntal writing in 18th<\/sup>-century Rome. This music had a powerful influence on composers like Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn and Mozart. This album is the first to be devoted to Giorgi and I sincerely hope that it will earn him recognition as one of the greatest masters of Western music.\u201d<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The splendour of Roman polyphony<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This recording is devoted to a composer who is completely unknown. We don\u2019t know his date of birth or where he came from. In 1719, Giorgi was appointed chapel master of Saint-Jean-de-Latran in Rome. He ended his career in Lisbon, where he died in 1762. Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n, director of Clematis, Cappella Mediterranea and the Choeur de Chambre de Namur, immediately fell in love with Giorgi’s music, which retains many characteristics of Renaissance polyphony, including the use of polychorality and madrigal effects, but uses them to create lush new harmonies. This recording brings together several motets by this prolific composer around a concertante mass for soloists and instruments, including a moving Ave Maria<\/em> that lends the album its title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This programme was first performed at the Festival de la Chaise-Dieu in August 2010.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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