CARISSIMI ORATORIOS JONAS • JEPHTE • EZECHIA • JOB LES VOIX BAROQUES ACD2 2622 … Giacomo Carissimi was the greatest exponent of the Latin sacred historia.   He spent all his life in Rome, as maestro di cappella at the San Apollinare church.   This church was attached to the Collegio Germanico seminary, at which the Jesuits trained German-speaking missionaries for the task of spiritually re-conquering Lutheran Germany.   In his music, Carissimi perfectly embraced the views of his employers on appropriate means for stimulating faith.   With theatrical flair, remarkable imagination, and a verbal sensitivity equal to Monteverdi's, he brought Biblical characters to vivid life. Born in Marino, near Rome, and baptized on April 18, 1605, Carissimi was the youngest of a cooper's seven children.   We don't know where he got his early musical training.   In l623 he was hired as a chorister and organist at the Tivoli cathedral.   Five years later he became maestro di cappelia at the San Ruffino cathedral in Assisi.   He arrived in Rome at the end of 1629 to work at San Apollinare, and remained at this post until his death on January 12, 1674.   Carissimi was ordained a priest in 1637.   On four Good Fridays, beginning on that of 1650, he conducted performances of his oratorios at the San Marcello church.   He led a quiet life; one of the few times it was disturbed was when he became guardian of an orphaned nephew and niece.   He was also a moneylender.   He bequeathed the wealth he accumulated to his employers, to be used in training young singers. … © Fançois Filiatrault, 2009 translated by Sean McCutcheon LES VOIX BAROQUES Suzie LeBlanc SOPRANO Maria Keohane SOPRANO Catherine Webster SOPRANO Josée Lalonde ALTO Matthew White CONTRE-TÉNOR | COUNTER TENOR Lawrence Wiliford TÉNOR | TENOR Colin Balzer TÉNOR | TENOR Sumner Thompson BARYTON | BARITONE Tyler Duncan BARYTON | BARITONE LES CHŒURS SONT CHANTÉS PAR LES SOLISTES | CHORUS PARTS ARE SUNG BY THE SOLOISTS Chloe Meyers VIOLON | VIOLIN Chantal Remillard VIOLON | VIOLIN Amanda Keesmaat VIOLONCELLE | CELLO Emily Walhout VIOLE DE GAMBE, LYRONE | VIOL, LIRONE Sylvain Bergeron LUTH, THÉORBE | LUTE, THEORBO Pierre-Yves Martel VIOLONS Sara Lackie HARPE | HARP Alexander Weimann CHEF ET CLAVECIN | CONDUCTOR AHD HARPSICHORD Matthew White DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE | ARTISTIC DIRECTION Alexander Weimann DIRECTION MUSICALE | MUSICAL DIRECTION GIACOMO CARISSIMI 1605-1674 JONAS   1 • Cum repleta esset Hinive [Historicus, Deus, Chorus] 2:34   2 • Et proeliabantur venti [Chorus] 3:26   3 • Jonas autem in interiobus navis [Historicus, Gubernator, Nautae, Chorus] 3:28   4 • Tulerunt nautae Jonam et miserunt in mare [Chorus, Jonas] 0:56   5 • Justus es, Domine [Jonas, Chorus] 5:29   6 • Et imperavit Dominus pisci [Chorus] 0:55   7 • Peccavimus, Domine [Chorus] 2:13             Jonas - Colin Balzer             Deus, Nautae - Sumner Thompson (Bassus I)             Gubernator - Josée Lalonde (Altus)             Nautae, Historicus - Tyler Duncan (Bossus II)             Historicus - Suzie LeBlanc (Cantus I)             Historicus - Maria Keohane (Cantus II)             Historicus - Lawrence Wiliford (Altus) JEPHTE   8 • Cum vocasset in proelium [Historicus altus, Jephte, Chorus] 7:53   9 • Cum vidisset Jephte [Historicus altus, Jephte, Filia, Chorus] 5:45 10 • Plorate colles, dolete montes [Filia, Jephte, Chorus] 4:45 11 • Plorate filii Israel plorate [Chorus] 5:29             Jephte - Lawrence Wiliford             Filia - Suzie LeBlanc             Historicus - Matthew White (Altus)             Historicus - Maria Keohane (Cantus I)             Historicus - Catherine Webster (Cantus II)             Historicus - Tyler Duncan (Bossus)             Eccho I - Maria Keohane             Eccho II - Catherine Webster EZECHIA 12 • Aegrotante Ezechia [Angeli, Dominus, Isaias, Ezechia] 3:13 13 • Obsecro, Domine [Ezechia] 4:38 14 • Misertus est autem Dominus... [Angeli, Dominus, Ezechia] 2:32 15 • Dextera Domini fecit virtutem [Ezechia] 1:25 16 • Narribimus omnes opéra Domini [Chorus] 2:42             Angelus I - Maria Keohane             Angelus II - Catherine Webster             Isaias - Matthew White             Dominus - Sumner Thompson             Ezechia - Colin Balzer JOB 17 • Audi audi, Job [Diabolus, Job, Angelus] 2:18 18 • Audi. audi Job [Diabolus, Job] 4:54 19 • Vade, vade, vade, Spiritus malus [Angelus, Diabolus, Job] 3:07             Diabolus - Tyler Duncan             Job - Matthew White             Angelus - Maria Keohane ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879