Domenico Cimarosa - Dixit Dominus

Domenico Cimarosa - Dixit Dominus
EAC RIP | FLAC + CUE + LOG | HQ Scans
CPO | Recorded: 2003 | Released: 2008
Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano & Trento - Fabio Pirona

What we get is a work steeped in Cimarosa’s operatic experience, but conventionally ‘sacred’ in form. Thus we get to hear all the musical forces at beginning and end of the work, and in between soloists alternate with chorus. The music is, unsurprisingly, very well put together; there are plenty of enticing melodies and the whole has considerable charm. But compared to the great settings of the same Psalm it lacks both profundity and real grandeur of conception. Still, take it on its own terms and there is much to enjoy.

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 full review
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/July08/Cimarosa_Dixit_9999882.htm

ok folks along with reviving my old rips is time to start ripping & releasing my newly bought cds. I will (try to) release 1 new cd a week, at this pace I should be able to keep going till christmas and further. Let's start with something sacred and festive: a massive setting (almost 1 hour!) of the well known Psalm Dixit Dominus by Cimarosa. Don't expect to find real spiritual feelings, rather a very operistic approach (see for example the tenor aria: dominus a dextris tuis). Some choruses, instead, remember Haydn.