DISCOGRAPHY

CARLES BAGUER (1768-1808)
Sacred drama (1807)

Pablo García-López, tenor
David Alegret, tenor
Roger Padullés, tenor
Ferran Albrich, baritone
Mireia Tarragó, soprano
Cor Francesc Valls (Carles Prat, director)
Vespres d'Arnadí (Dani Espasa, clavecí i direcció)

A large-scale "sacred drama" composed in 1807 by Carles Baguer (1768-1808), organist of Barcelona Cathedral. The work sets the well-known parable of the Prodigal Son to music with a sensitivity that bridges Haydn’s Classicism—notably evoking the "Chaos" from The Creation in its overture—with the innovations of Italian opera of the time. Recorded at the Santa Caterina Convent in Barcelona, this album recovers one of "Carlets'" final masterpieces before the Peninsular War, in a performance that balances dramatic intensity with profound intimacy.

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DOMÈNEC TERRADELLAS (1713-1751)
Oratorio in three acts. Book by Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Alicia Amo, soprano
Montserrat Seró, soprano
Mercedes Gancedo, soprano
Anna Alàs, mezzo-soprano
Jorge Navarro Colorado, tenor
Roger Padullés, tenor
Vespres d'Arnadí (Dani Espasa, harpsichord & conductor)

World premiere recording of this three-act oratorio by the Barcelona-born composer Domènec Terradellas (1713-1750). Composed in 1736 for the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Naples, the work adapts a famous libretto by Pietro Metastasio about the biblical reunion of Joseph and his brothers in Egypt. Featuring highly virtuous vocal writing and refined instrumentation rooted in Neapolitan opera seria, this production by Vespres d’Arnadí and Dani Espasa restores a key piece that established Terradellas as one of the most influential European composers of his era.

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• Giovanni BONONCINI (1670-1747)
  Astianatte (1727) - Aria: «Render mi vuole» (Pirro)
• Giovanni Alberto RISTORI (1692-1753)
  Le fate (1736) - Aria: «Bellezze adorate» (Ruggiero)
• Antonio Giovanni POLLAROLO (1676-1746)
  Leucippe e Teonoe (1719) - Aria: «Cesseran le sue procelle» (Arbante)
• Francesco GASPARINI (1661-1727)
  L’oracolo del fato (1709) - Aria: «Qui ti scrivo o nome amato» (Cefalo)
• Giovanni PORTA (1675-1755)
  Farnace (1731) - Aria: «Non sempre grandina» (Farnace)
• Antonio LOTTI (1667-1740)
  Ascanio (1718) - Sinfonia
• Domenico SARRO (1679-1744)
  Siroe, re di Persia (1726) - Aria: «Gelido in ogni vena» (Cosroe)
• Geminiano GIACOMELLI (1692-1740)
  Gianguir (1729) - Aria: «Mi par sentir la bella» (Cosrovio)
• Nicola Antonio Giacinto PORPORA (1686-1768)
  Deianira, Iole ed Ercole (1711) -Aria: «Scuote la chioma d’oro» (Deianira)
• Geminiano GIACOMELLI (1692-1740)
  Gianguir (1729) - Aria: «Date o trombe il suon guerriero» (Cosrovio)
• Giuseppe PORSILE (1680-1750)
  La Clemenza di Cesare (1727) - Aria: «Se parlano a suo danno» (Cesare)

Xavier Sabata, countertenor
VESPRES D’ARNADÍ
Farran Sylvan James, concertino
Kathleen Leidig, Alba Roca, Adriana Alcaide, violins I
Luca Giardini, Oriol Algueró, Elisabeth Bataller, Cecilia Clares, violins II
Natan Paruzel, Núria Pujolràs, violas
Oriol Aymat, Oleguer Aymamí, cellos
Mario Lisarde, double bass
Pere Saragossa, Ivan Alcazo, oboes
Carles Vallès, bassoon
Carles Herruz, Sergi Marquillas, trumpets
Pierre-Antoine Tremblay,Pepe Reche, horns
Rafael Bonavita, theorbo and guitar
Dani Espasa, harpsichord and conductor

The brainchild of Xavier Sabata, this CD is a tribute to those we have called the 'invisibles'. Who were they? They were composers who are little known today although renowned in their time; they were instrumentalists of high professional stature, so valiant as to deserve a solo part written expressly for them in vocal scores such as operas and serenades (ascending to a solo role of equal dignity to singers).

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María Espada, soprano
Vespres d'Arnadí
Farran Sylvan James, concertino
Jonathan Pia, trumpet
17 musicians

Disc dedicated to Anna Maria Strada del Pò, the soprano favourite of Handel
Overtures and aries from Orlando, Agrippina, Poro, Sosarme, Atalanta, Ezio, Alcina and Arianna in Creta.

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Missa en Re major
Stabat Mater
Quomodo Obscuratum Est
Lauda Jerusalem
MEPCD00

Lluís Vilamajó, tenor
LA XANTRIA, Pere Lluís Biosca
VESPRES D'ARNADÍ, Dani Espasa

Catalonia in the 18th century, like Bohemia and Moravia, produced a surplus of musicians, surplus that sometimes “was exported” to the other kingdoms of Europe (Domènec Terradellas, the Pla brothers) although most obtained a position in religious centres in mainland or overseas territories of the Spanish crown. Josep Mir i Llussà achieved some of these most prestigious positions in Segovia (1731-1741), Valladolid (1741-1750) and Madrid (1751-1764). In this stage in Madrid, Mir was mixed with the most influential persons of the court: José de Nebra, Jaume Casellas, José Ripa and the Italians Francesco Corselli and Nicola Conforto. His main task was always the composition of church music, materialized in an impressive catalogue of works and in its dissemination throughout the Spanish and Latino American geographies. The main sources of Josep Mir i Llussà’s music are the royal library of the monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, the Segovia Cathedral chapter archive, the musical archive of the sanctuary-monastery of Aranzazu and, above all, the ancient music archive of the monastery of La Encarnación of Madrid, acquired at the beginnings of 20th century by the Abbey of Montserrat. This recording shows four contrasting pieces both in style and in scoring: a mass of great format with soloists, choir and orchestra (Missa a 8, 1760), a lamentation for a solo tenor and orchestra (Quomodo obscuratum est, 1753), a Stabat mater written a capella (1756) and a psalm for a double choir and small orchestra (Lauda Jerusalem). We do hope that this anthology, a small show of the colossal production of one of the more important chapel masters from 18th century to a Spanish level, contribute to the knowledge of our musical and artistic past and to understand better the evolutions of a dynamic and at the same time contradictory century, in a country where the most ancient traditions coexisted with the latest innovations of the most fashionable music.

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Pîèces de Simphonie (1702)
Suites I & III
MEPCD 001

VESPRES D'ARNADÍ
Dani Espasa, harpschicord and conduction
Pere Saragossa, oboe
Katy Elkin, oboe
Xavier Blanch, oboe and taille
Iván Alcazo, taille
Sara Parés, flutes
Carles Vallès, flutes and basson
Carles Cristóbal, basson
Guadalupe del Moral, violin
Juliano Buosi, violin
Elisabeth Bataller, violin
Natan Paruzel, viola
Xavier Roig, violoncello
Oriol Martí, violone
Joan Manuel Chouciño, harp
Pere Olivé, percussion
Dani Garay, percussion

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