This Delphian label release uses the title of Antonio Lotti's most famous composition, the Crucifixus à 8 heard here on track nine and performed by choirs great and small who love it for its simple, rich chains of dissonances. The booklet explains how this work, and a companion Crucifixus à 6, became well known while the rest of Lotti's music was forgotten. But the Syred Consort and the Orchestra of St. Paul's, with conductor Ben Palmer, focus instead on just those forgotten works; nothing on the album other than the two ...
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This Delphian label release uses the title of Antonio Lotti's most famous composition, the Crucifixus à 8 heard here on track nine and performed by choirs great and small who love it for its simple, rich chains of dissonances. The booklet explains how this work, and a companion Crucifixus à 6, became well known while the rest of Lotti's music was forgotten. But the Syred Consort and the Orchestra of St. Paul's, with conductor Ben Palmer, focus instead on just those forgotten works; nothing on the album other than the two Crucifixus settings has ever been recorded before. The recording is worthwhile for that reason alone; the music Lotti wrote for performance at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice was past its prime by the early 18th century, but still significant. Lotti, in fact, was the teacher of the highly original Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, who assembled some of Lotti's compositions into larger wholes. The music here is never boring even if it never coheres into a single creative statement....
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Antonio Lotti. Very Good. In very good packaging. The Syred Consort; Orchestra Of St Paul'S; Ben Palmer-Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus by The Syred Consort; Orchestra Of St Paul'S; Ben Palmer.
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