Stanislao Mattei: La Passione di Gesù Cristo [2CD]

Giulia Bolcato – Stanislao Mattei: La Passione di Gesù Cristo [2CD]

Stanislao Mattei, a Conventual Franciscan friar, theorist and composer from Bologna, served as maestro di cappella at San Francesco and San Petronio. His Oratorio della Passione, called his masterpiece, premiered in Bologna in 1792 to great acclaim and was revived in 1806 with a fourteen-year-old Gioachino Rossini singing Mary Magdalene.

Three manuscript scores survive; this recording uses the second version, complete with its Sinfonias, a work of real expressive and technical impact. Featuring soprano Giulia Bolcato. A 2CD set on Tactus.

Genre: Classical, Choral, Sacred.