Buono Giuseppe Chiodi (1728-1783) - Concerto Grosso
Performers: Orquestra Espazo de Cámara; Mario Diz (director)
Further info: No available
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Italian composer, active in Spain. A priest, he was apparently maestro
di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral when he was appointed to the equivalent
post at Santiago di Compostela in 1769. Besides numerous sacred works,
he wrote at least two operas, De las glorias de España, la de Santiago
es la mejor (1773) and La birba (1774). Nothing survives of the first, a
kind of oratorio or ‘poema sacromelodramático’ to a libretto by Amo y
García de Lois. La birba, in three acts, was composed for the feast of
St James the Apostle, and from surviving parts it was evidently a comic
opera, possibly the first ever performed in Santiago. The many arias and
eloquent duets are particularly brilliant and carry the whole action;
the few recitatives that survive are unusually elaborate for the time.
Thank you very much!
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