Dorian Recordings

DOR-93243

The Jesuit Operas
Operas by Kapsberger and Zipoli
2 CD Set

Ensemble Abendmusik
James David Christie, Director
Roberta Anderson, Soprano - Terrance Barber, Countertenor
Michael Collver, Countertenor - John Elwes, Tenor
Ellen Hargis, Soprano - Anne Harley, Soprano
Mark J. McSweeney, Baritone - Pamela J. Murray, Soprano
Steven Rickards, Countertenor - Ryan Turner, Tenor
Donald Wilkinson, Bass - Randall Wong, Countertenor (Sopranist)
DOR-93243 Cover

The two operas on this recording sit pretty much at opposite ends of the baroque era, but both are connected through a dramatic/musical tradition that became part and parcel of the Jesuit enterprise throughout the seventeenth and into the eighteenth century. In recent years scholars have come to reflect on the "Jesuit way of proceeding," a rather amorphous notion that points not so much at what the Jesuits did in the period of early modern Catholicism, but rather how and why they did what they did during this period. …
- T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.

DISC I

Johannes Hieronymous Kapsberger (c.1580-1651)
Apotheosis sive consecratio SS. Ignatii et Francisci Xaverii, Opera in V Acts

Paris, Biblotheque Nationale, Departement de Musicque, Res. F. 1075, modern performing edition by T. Frank Kennedy, S.J.
1 - 28 ACT I 23:36
29 - 47 ACT II 14:41
48 - 73 ACT III 14:25
74 - 97 ACT IV 13:50

Disc I Total Time: 66:39

DISC II

Kapsberger: Apotheosis sive consecratio SS. Ignatii et Francisci Xaverii (continued)
1 - 57 ACT V 21:35

Domenico Zipoli, S.J. (1688-1726)
Martin Schmid, S.J. (1694-1772)
Anonymous Indigenous Composers
San Ignacio de Loyola, a Chamber Opera in II Acts

Performing score reconstructed from the original manuscripts in the Episcopal Archive of the Chiquitos in Concepci&ocate;n, Bolivia, by Bernardo Illari.
58 - 78 ACT I 24:12
79 - 88 ACT II 17:22

Disc II Total Time: 63:15

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