Motets

Motets

Motets
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-23
Music Label: Dorian Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. Vos Cheles Op.3 No.5: 'Motetto Per Ogni Festa Della Madonna': Aria 'Vos Cheles'
  2. Vos Cheles Op.3 No.5: 'Motetto Per Ogni Festa Della Madonna': Recitative 'En Hodierna'
  3. Vos Cheles Op.3 No.5: 'Motetto Per Ogni Festa Della Madonna': Aria 'Fides Sonora'
  4. Vos Cheles Op.3 No.5: 'Motetto Per Ogni Festa Della Madonna': Recitative 'In Tanta Igitur'
  5. Vos Cheles Op.3 No.5: 'Motetto Per Ogni Festa Della Madonna': Aria 'Eia Melos'
  6. Mittite Dulces Op.3 No.2: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'Mittite Dulcis'
  7. Mittite Dulces Op.3 No.2: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Recitative 'Ut Sit Iesus'
  8. Mittite Dulces Op.3 No.2: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'Arde Meum Cor'
  9. Mittite Dulces Op.3 No.2: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Recitative 'O Divini Amori'
  10. Mittite Dulces Op.3 No.2: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'Veni Iesu'
  11. Angelice Mentes Op.3 No.3: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Angelice Mentes'
  12. Angelice Mentes Op.3 No.3: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Recitative 'Ardent Fervore'
  13. Angelice Mentes Op.3 No.3: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Belle Stelle'
  14. Angelice Mentes Op.3 No.3: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Recitative 'O Fortunata Sidera'
  15. Angelice Mentes Op.3 No.3: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Plaudite Omnes'
  16. Ite Molles Op.3 No.4: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'Ite Molles'
  17. Ite Molles Op.3 No.4: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Recitative 'Ardet Amore'
  18. Ite Molles Op.3 No.4: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'Placidi Zefiri'
  19. Ite Molles Op.3 No.4: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Recitative 'Iam Respiro'
  20. Ite Molles Op.3 No.4: 'Motetto Per Il Signore': Aria 'O Quam Dulce'
  21. Clare Stelle Op.3 No.1: 'Motetto Per La Madonna': Aria 'Clare Stelle'
  22. Clare Stelle Op.3 No.1: 'Motetto Per La Madonna': Recitative 'En Maria'
  23. Clare Stelle Op.3 No.1: 'Motetto Per La Madonna': Aria 'Surge, Veni, Vola'
  24. Clare Stelle Op.3 No.1: 'Motetto Per La Madonna': Aria 'Salva Nos'
  25. Ad Coelum Op.3 No.6: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Ad Coelum'
  26. Ad Coelum Op.3 No.6: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Vos Dilecte
  27. Ad Coelum Op.3 No.6: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Resonate'
  28. Ad Coelum Op.3 No.6: 'Motetto Per Ogni Santo': Aria 'Cara Mors'

Music reviews of Motets

Music Review: Serenely beautiful solo motets from the high baroque
Rating: 5 Stars

Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672 - 1749): Motets for Solo Voice with Violin Accompaniment (1702), op.3, Nos. 1-6. Performed by Ellen Hargis, soprano, and Ensemble Ouabache [Christopher Verrette and Ingrid Matthews, violins; Shelley Taylor, violoncello; Catherine Liddell, theorbo; Thomas Gerber, organ]. Recorded at the Church of the Nativity in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 22nd to 25th January 1996. Published in 1998 as Dorian Discovery DIS-80163. Total playing time: 60'14".

The Italian baroque seems to be an inexhaustible quarry for lovers of historical performance practice and beautifully balanced music. Francesco Antonio Bonporti was a composer-priest who, after studies in Innsbruck and Rome, spent most of his working life in his home town of Trento, once host to the Tridentinum, but in the early eighteenth century nothing more than a provincial nest. Of his twelve published works (of which only nine are still extant), eleven consisted of instrumental music, leaving only the set of six solo motets recorded here and a rumoured, but not extant, mass as his complete vocal works. These motets are written for a small group such as would have been delighted to perform them in the provincial surroundings of Trento and elsewhere, possibly for performing nuns, a phenomenon which was apparently not all that uncommon at the time. Each motet consists of four or five "movements", alternating arias and recitatives; the Latin texts are devotional (Roman Catholic, of course); and the simple but haunting melodies are of exceptional beauty.

The performance by Ellen Hargis and the Indianapolis-based Ensemble Ouabache (named for the Wabash river) reflects both the serenity and beauty of these works. Ellen Hargis's pure, high soprano is given pride of place, so to speak, but the lovely instrumental accompaniment, although placed decently in the background, supports her in every way, making this a disc that fans of high baroque music will love. Ellen Hargis's voice is, of course, an early-music voice, she is not an opera singer, at least, not in the modern sense. But that is only to her advantage in this context, and the beauty of her singing coupled with Dorian's excellent engineering led a critic in Germany's "Klassik heute" magazine to give this CD the highest rating - which, in turn, led to me buying the disc, albeit it many years later.

The production is lovingly made, with a beautifully-printed English-language booklet. Unfortunately, there is one drop of wormwood: The track-listing is out-of-sync with what you hear; it appears that one of the four-movement motets has been given five tracks, whereas the closing "Alleluia" of the last of the recorded motets is not listed at all. This can be a little disconcerting, but it certainly does not detract from the beauty and serenity of a very special disc which does honour to the early music scene in Indiana and to the efforts of Sono Luminus-Dorian.
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