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Alessandro Grandi (Venezia 1590 - Bergamo 1630)
Da "Otto Mottetti per Soprano"
O dulce nomen Jesu
A voce sola. Con Sinfonia

Romina Basso, mezzosoprano
Manuel Tomadin, organo

Rec. 8 August, 2019
Chiesa di San Giovanni in Xenodochio, Cividale del Friuli

Latin text:
Grandi: O dulce nomen Jesu

O dulce nomen Jesu splendor
aeterni luminis.
Tu salus mundi, tu gloria caeli, tu
verus delitiarum Paradisus.
Salve mi Jesu, ad te toto corde venio
quia amore tuo langueo.

Tu salus mundi …
Moriatur ergo caro mea in Christo,
vivat semper Jesus in anima mea
ut fruator cor meum Paradisi gloria.
Tu salus mundi…
O dolce nome Jesu...

Alessandro Grandi is considered as one of the most important composers of the early Baroque music in Italy. He had lived under the shadow of Claudio Monteverdi, with whom he worked for a number of years at San Marco in Venice. It seems that the latter prevented him from publishing large-scale sacred compositions. Grandi made a virtue out of the necessity and focused his compositions for solo voices. Only later, when he worked in Bergamo, he was able to write large-scale works.

The pieces for solo voice are perhaps his most important and impressive contribution to music history. Grandi was a child prodigy who was given important positions at an early age. His sacred concertos show a great sensitivity to the voice and the musical illustration of the texts. The fact that he was a brilliant singer himself was certainly helpful in this respect. The performance of this repertoire requires great technical skills and a fine sensitivity towards the texts.

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