Sonntag 3. März 2024, 20.00 Uhr
Abendmusiken Graz Mariahilf
Pfarre Mariahilf, Mariahilferplatz 3, Graz
Montag 4. März 2024, 19.30 Uhr
Salvatorkirche, Wien
Wipplingerstr. 6, 1010 Wien
Music from Antonio Draghi (1634–1700)
Johanna Falkinger | Voice
Martin Bolterauer, Clément Gester | Cornetto
Maria Danneberg, Luciano Nania | Viola da Gamba
Eugène Michelangeli | Claviorganum
Originally moving to Vienna as a singer in 1658, the Italian musician Antonio Draghi (born 1634 in Rimini) will experience an incredible professional career at the imperial court. Within a few years he will become the most important musical figure there, as composer and Sopraintendente delle feste teatrali. By the time of his death in 1700, he will have composed more than 120 operas and numerous other vocal works, both secular and sacred.
Regrettably, the music of this extraordinarily prolific artist remains little known today. In our program, we present selected arias and scenes from Sepolcri-oratorios by this master, framed by works by his colleagues at court as well as by his employer Leopold I himself.
Programme
Antonio Draghi (1634–1700)
from l’Humanità redenta (1669): Sinfonia
from l’Epitafii sopra il Sepolcro di Christo (1671): Per Pietà la tomba aprite
from Il Terremoto (1682): Se la terra trema
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
from Sacro-profanus Concentus Musicus (Nürnberg, 1662): Sonata XIII a 2
Antonio Draghi
from le Cinque Piaghe di Christo (1677): Misera sù quei piedi
Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667)
from the Libro Quarto (1656): Ricercar VI
Antonio Draghi
from Il Titolo posto su la Croce di Christo (1679): Sinfonia, Trà due ladri, Imprimetevi note belle
Giovanni Felice Sances (1600–1679)
from Motetti a due, tre, quattro e cinque voci, Opera Quarta Ecclesiastica (Venedig, 1642): Quot maris sunt guttae
Antonio Draghi
from Li Sette Dolori di Maria Vergine (1670): Sinfonia
Leopold I (1640–1705)
from Le Sette Consolazioni a Maria Vergine: Dolente Maria
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623–1680)
from Sacro-profanus Concentus Musicus (Nürnberg, 1662): Sonata XI a 4
Antonio Draghi
from Il Limbo aperto (1672): Mie pupille cui nel seno
from La Corona di spine (1675): Ò del Ciel spirto sovrano
Antonio Draghi
from Li Sette Dolori di Maria Vergine (1670): Pace al cor, pace all’alma
Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676)
from Musiche Sacre (Venedig, 1656) from the Canzone a 3: Passacaglia