Piccolo Coro Mariele Ventre Dell'antoniano Che Paura!

Claudio Abbado hat mit diesem Werk seinem Credo alle Ehre gemacht: "Für mich ist Zuhören das Allerwichtigste: einander zuhören, zuhören, was andere Menschen zu sagen haben, auf die Musik hören.“

The contents of this album reflect the operatic music Mozart would have known as a teenager. One of the composers, Christoph Willibald Gluck, is known as a founder of the Classical style in opera; others, including Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, and Tommaso Traetta, are known mostly to specialists, at least in the operatic field. Listeners who have heard the spectacular arias of the late Baroque popularized by Renée Fleming and others will find the pieces here less virtuosic but more dramatically satisfying, as if the composers and librettists had engaged themselves anew with the ancient Greek stories they were retelling. One might object that annotator Denis Morrier gives short shift to the most important of the librettists, Pietro Metastasio, whose writings remained popular up to Beethoven's time.

On this new recording, Coro Victoria offers a portrait of Alonso Lobo (1555-1617) through a cross-section of his sacred output (his works in Spanish are all lost). The group also illustrates the variety of interpretative practices of the period. The concluding O quam suavis est Domine is sung by a single soprano while the vihuela accompaniment supplies the remaining five parts. Church choirs sang this music in the liturgy, but minstrels also played it during processions, and there was free traffic between sacred and secular contexts.

A combinação de um grupo de cantores com sólida formação musical e com a condução de uma das principais regentes brasileiras, faz do Coro da Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP) uma referência em música vocal no Brasil. Nas apresentações junto à Osesp em grandes obras do repertório coral-sinfônico ou em concertos a capella na Sala São Paulo e pelo interior do Estado, o grupo aborda diferentes períodos musicais, com ênfase aos séculos XX e XXI e às criações de compositores brasileiros como Almeida Prado, Aylton Escobar, Gilberto Mendes, Francisco Mignone, Liduíno Pitombeira, João Guilherme Ripper e Villa-Lobos.