Historia Divitis (Dives Malus)

Album by Giacomo Carissimi & Sheila Armstrong & Eva Csapó & Nigel Rogers & Ian Partridge & Kurt Widmer & Matthias Hölle & Schola Cantorum Basiliensis & Linde Consort

Historia Divitis (Dives Malus) is a 17th-century historia by Giacomo Carissimi, composed around 1650. The work exemplifies early Baroque sacred drama with an emphasis on expressive recitative, solo pieces and choral writing supported by basso continuo, and it occupies a place in Carissimi's output as a representative example of the mid-17th-century Italian oratorio tradition.

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Symphonia in G, für Streicher une Basso continuo
    4:47
  2. 2.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Erat vir quidam opulentissimus
    2:33
  3. 3.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Factum est autem in moreretur
    1:05
  4. 4.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Iam satis edisti
    2:59
  5. 5.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Heu miser, quid audis
    1:17
  6. 6.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): O spes, mias fallaces
    2:52
  7. 7.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Morere, infelix
    1:34
  8. 8.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Sat mensas mille plenas
    2:18
  9. 9.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): En vitae suprema
    3:57
  10. 10.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Heu se miserum
    4:40
  11. 11.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Martuus est ergo dives
    0:48
  12. 12.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Pater Abraham, miserere mei
    2:37
  13. 13.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): O dives miserrime
    3:45
  14. 14.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Quam stulti sunt, quam vani
    1:58
  15. 15.
    Dive Malus (Historia Divitis): Avernales inter poenas
    3:55

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