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CARISSIMI, G.: Motets - Audivi vocem / Christus factus est / Usquequo peccatores (Consortium Carissimi, Comeaux)
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CARISSIMI, G.: Motets - Audivi vocem / Christus factus est / Usquequo peccatores (Consortium Carissimi, Comeaux)
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Giacomo Carissimi was one of the most admired of seventeenth-century Italian composers. The maestro from Marino, near Rome, acquired a Europe-wide fame at an early age and excelled in church music. Commonly employing texts that modify or amplify passages from the scriptures, rather than taking those texts verbatim, Carissimi employed all his genius for vocal melodic lines and accompanying instrumentation to fashion a sequence of spellbinding masterpieces. Foremost among these is Usquequo peccatores which, through its size and length, blurs the very distinction between motet and oratorio. This is the fourth Naxos release of music by Carissimi from this ensemble.
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Carissimi, Giacomo

Audivi vocem
Carissimi, Giacomo Bible - New Testament, lyricist(s)

Christus factus est
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Christus factus est
00:04:32
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Carissimi, Giacomo

Usquequo peccatores
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Usquequo peccatores
00:20:21
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Carissimi, Giacomo Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)

Dixit Dominus
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Dixit Dominus
00:05:52
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Carissimi, Giacomo

Silentium tenebant
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Silentium tenebant
00:06:05
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Carissimi, Giacomo Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)

Sustinuimus in pacem
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Sustinuimus in pacem
00:06:06
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Carissimi, Giacomo Bible - New Testament / Bible - Old Testament, lyricist(s)

Timete Dominum
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Timete Dominum
00:06:07
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Carissimi, Giacomo

Hodie Salvator Mundi
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Hodie Salvator Mundi
00:08:18
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Total Playing Time:
01:05:39
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