The central work on this collection of seventeenth century vocal music is Carissimi's Jephte, a 25-minute oratorio, for voices and continuo, that swiftly and powerfully presents the biblical story of the warrior who prepares to sacrifice his daughter, Filla (Anne Grimm), in thanks for his success in battle. The entire group of soloists here achieves a pitch of sadness that takes over the work soon after its imposing beginning and infuses the series of declaimed utterances in which the story unfolds. The question for the ...
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The central work on this collection of seventeenth century vocal music is Carissimi's Jephte, a 25-minute oratorio, for voices and continuo, that swiftly and powerfully presents the biblical story of the warrior who prepares to sacrifice his daughter, Filla (Anne Grimm), in thanks for his success in battle. The entire group of soloists here achieves a pitch of sadness that takes over the work soon after its imposing beginning and infuses the series of declaimed utterances in which the story unfolds. The question for the potential buyer is whether he or she accepts the current fashion for performing Baroque oratorios with one voice to a part, with the choral sections taken by the united group of soloists. This procedure is more justifiable with Carissimi than it is with Bach, although an observer of the time indicated clearly that he heard the work performed by a group of some 20 singers. (The fact that it might, in a world devastated by war, famine, and plague, have been performed at times by smaller...
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