Elia Vannini, Magnificat

Fra' Elia Vannini (Medicina, 1637-1695)
MAGNIFICAT
For 4 voices, 3 violins, cello and basso continuo
from "Psalmi ad vesperas musicis trium et quattuor vocum concentibus accommodati cum quattuor instrumentis musicalibus [...] opus tertium", Bologna, Pietro Maria Monti, 1693


Recorded live in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, 3rd September 2009


Performers:


CAPPELLA MUSICALE DI SAN PETRONIO

Francesca Santi & Sonia Tedla, soprano
Jacopo Facchini & Milena Pericoli, alto
Alberto Allegrezza & Yasuharu Fukushima, tenor
Alberto Salarelli & Marco Spongano, bass

Michio Isaji, first violin
Elisa Imbalzano, second violin
Monica Pelliciari, third violin
Claudia Poz, cello

Sara Dieci, organ

Michele Vannelli, maestro di cappella & harpsichord


This recording represents a testimony in sound of the concert held on 3rd September 2009 in coincidence with the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of the death of Vannini. The events included a convention and two concerts in Medicina, where the composer was born, and Ravenna, where he worked as Maestro di Cappella of the Cathedral.

The CAPPELLA MUSICALE ARCIVESCOVILE DELLA BASILICA DI SAN PETRONIO, founded in 1436 at the request of Pope Eugene IV, was one of the most important music institutions in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; it produced important forms of instrumental music and boasted such outstanding musicians as Cazzati, Colonna, Perti, Vitali, Gabrielli, Torelli and Jacchini. The Cappella was formed anew in the 1980s, seeking to rediscover and enhance in a systematic manner the repertoire of the Bologna school, conserved in abundant quantities in the basilica's music archive. The rebirth came about in the light of recent studies of musical philology and of performance practice: under the direction of Sergio Vartolo, the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio formed the first orchestra with period instruments in Italy, boasting the collaboration of the most important musicians active in the field of so-called early music. The Cappella has given concerts all over Europe and has made recordings with Bongiovanni, Dynamic, Harmonia Mundi France, Naxos and Tactus. Michele Vannelli became maestro di cappella in 2006.


www.cappellamusicalesanpetronio.it


background image: The Madonna and Child by a follower of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri detto il Guercino (XVII century)