FRANCESCO DURANTE (1684 - 1755)
"Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah" for SATB choir, strings, two trombe da caccia and basso continuo (Lettione terza del Venerdi Santo. Con Istromenti e Trombe da Caccia a 4 voci)
3. Recordare (Chorus)
4. Patres nostri (Chorus)
5. In animabus nostri (Soli and Chorus)
6. Pellis nostra (Alto)
Performed by the Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano
Roberta Invernizzi, soprano
Dorothee Labusch, alto
Antonio Abete, bass
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
Directed by Diego Fasolis
www.artsmusic.de/Lamentationes...
"Jeremiah" (1511) from the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
*Francesco Durante (31 March 1684 -- 30 September 1755) was an Italian composer.
He was born at Frattamaggiore, in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and at an early age he entered the Conservatorio dei poveri di Gesù Cristo, in Naples, where he received lessons from Gaetano Greco. Later he became a pupil of Alessandro Scarlatti at the Conservatorio di Sant'Onofrio. He is also supposed to have studied under Bernardo Pasquini and Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni in Rome, but there is no documentary evidence. He is said to have succeeded Scarlatti in 1725 at Sant' Onofrio, and to have remained there until 1742, when he succeeded Porpora as head of the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto, also in Naples. This post he held for thirteen years, till his death in Naples. He was married three times.
His fame as a teacher was considerable, and Niccolò Jommelli, Giovanni Paisiello, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Niccolò Piccinni and Leonardo Vinci were amongst his pupils. As a teacher, he insisted on the unreasoning observance of rules, differing thus from Scarlatti, who treated all his pupils as individuals. A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of sacred music, was presented by Selvaggi, a Neapolitan art collector, to the Paris library. A catalogue may be found in Fétis's Biographie universelle. The imperial library of Vienna also preserves a valuable collection of Durante's manuscripts. Two requiems, several masses (one of which, a most original work, is the Pastoral Mass for four voices) and the Lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah are amongst his most important settings.