Durante: Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae

Francesco Durante {1684-1255) belongs together with Alessandro Scarlatti certainly to the most important representatives of soq. Neopolitan School. But he occupies a special position here: Throughout his life he has avoided the field of opera. In addition to several orchestral concerts and harpsichord works, his oeuvre mainly includes church music, including more than 20 masses alone We now present his Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae in a high-calibre first recording, which were already widely distributed during his lifetime, as the numerous contemporary copies of these Holy Saturday parliamentary sessions prove. If it were not inappropriate for the occasion, I would have to proclaim at this point: Incredibly beautiful music! (What I did with this). i am not alone with this judgement, Jean-Jacques Rousseau already praised Duroante in 1767 as "the greatest master of harmony in Italy, and thus in the whole world" Monika Frimmer and Mechthild Bach (soprano) and Margarete Joswig, alto are our soloists, it sings the Kölner Kammerchor and it plays the Collegium Cartusianum under the direction of Peter Neumann.