Released December 2016
CARDINAL KING: MUSIC FOR HENRY BENEDICT STUART IN ROME, 1740 - 91
The music recorded on this album presents for the first time the hitherto forgotten repertoire composed by the many musicians associated with, and employed by, Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart (1725 - 1807), a grandson of King James II of England and VII of Scotland, the brother of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', and the last in the direct line of Jacobite succession. Sitting on the cusp of the Baroque and the Classical, these pieces likewise tread a delicate path between innocence and grandeur, between charm and formality, and suggest that the Cardinal, for all his power, may have been a rather gentle man.
Cappella Fede
Harmonia Sacra (Tracks 10 and 17)
Cardinal King Track Listing
Cinque Assoluzzione Nos. 1, 2 and 5 Sebastiono Bolis (c. 1750 - 1804)
1. Subvenite sancti (1)
2. Qui Lazzarum resuscitasti (2)
3. Libera me Domine (5)
4. Jesu quaeritis Nazarenum Bolis (c. 1750 - 1804)
5. Splende fredda luna Giovanni Zamboni (fl. c. 1740 - 60)
6. O memorie funeste Zamboni (fl. c. 1740 - 60)
7. Ave Maria Giovanni Battista Costanzi (1704 - 78)
8. O come se' gentile Zamboni (fl. c. 1740 - 60)
9. Laudate pueri Dominum Bolis (c. 1750 - 1804)
10. Miserere Bolis (c. 1750 - 1804)
Allettamento Terzo Carlo Tessarini (1690 - 1766)
11. Adagio
12. Allegro
13. Allegro
14. Oculi omnium Niccolô Jommelli (1714 - 74)
15. Allettamento Secondo Tessarini (1690 - 1766)
16. Feritevi, ferite Zamboni (fl. c. 1740 - 60)
17. Letame della Madonna Santissima Bolis (c. 1750 - 1804)
Reviews
For a glowing review by Andrew Benson-Wilson see his recent blog post
‘Consort singing second to none’
‘A moving disc’
‘We’re glad we found this one’
– Elin Manahan Thomas & Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3 Record Review, January 2017