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Giovanni Giorgi, Ave Maria

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Uploaded by on May 18, 2011

Un disque exceptionnel à paraître chez Ricercar en juin 2011.

This recording is devoted to the works of a composer about whom we know practically nothing — meither his date of birth nor even his origins. All that we do know is that Giorgi held the position of maestro di cappella in San Giovanni Laterano in Rome in 1719 and that he ended his career in Lisbon, dying there in 1762. The discovery of his music was a life-changing experience for the young Argentine conductor Leonardo Garcia-Alarcon, music director of Clematis and the Cappella Mediterranea and now also of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur.Giorgi's music contains many characteristic traits of Renaissance polyphony such as the use of the polychoral style as well as madrigalesque effects, although these older techniques are nonetheless put at the service of a new style of richly imaginative music with new harmonic colours. A concertante Mass with soloists and instrumental accompaniment forms the centrepiece of this recording, although several motets from Giorgi's immense body of work are also included; one of these is the deeply moving Ave Maria that also provides the CD with its title.

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C'est à un compositeur totalement ignoré qu'est consacré cet enregistrement. On se sait rien de sa date de naissance, ni de son origine. En 1719, Giorgi occupe le poste de Maître de chapelle de Saint-Jean-de-Latran à Rome. C'est à Lisbonne qu'il termine sa carrière, où il décède en 1762. La découverte de sa musique a été un véritable coup de foudre pour le jeune chef Argentin Leonardo García-Alarcón qui depuis l'année passée, en plus de Clematis et de la Cappella Mediterranea, dirige le Choeur de Chambre de Namur. La musique de Giorgi a conservé de nombreuses caractéristiques de la polyphonie de la Renaissance, dont l'usage de la polychoralité et les effets madrigalesques. Mais ces éléments archaïsants sont mis au service d'une musique luxuriante aux harmonies nouvelles. Autour d'une Messe concertante avec solistes et instruments, ce programme regroupe plusieurs motets empruntés à l'immense production de Giorgi, dont un très émouvant Ave Maria qui donne son titre à cet enregistrement. Ce programme a été crée au Festival de la Chaise-Dieu en août 2010.

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