FULL IL GIONA (Bassani) Ambronay 2016 Maximiliano Baños, Renaud Delaigue, Capucine Keller
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il Giona
- Composer: Bassani Giovanni Battista
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Festival d'Ambronay
- Recorded: 2016
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Maximiliano Baños, Renaud Delaigue, Capucine Keller, Alice Kamenezky, Valerio Contaldo
- Conductor: Pierre Louis Retat
- Orchestra: Ensemble Chiome d'Oro
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Total Baroque
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgYVxwqhQo FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Giovanni Battista Bassani ( Padua?, around 1647 – Bergamo , 1 October 1716 ) was an Italian organist , violinist and composer of the Baroque period .
The place and date of birth of Giovanni Battista Bassani are not known. We can however assume that he came from Padua , given that he signed himself both “Bassani Padovano” and “Bassani di Ferrara ” ; a contemporary testimony by the historian Ferrante Borsetti states “Giovanni Battista Bassani was called from Ferrara not for reasons of origin, but because he had established his family among us” , clarifying that Bassani had indeed lived in Ferrara for a long time, but was not born there.
The exact year of his birth remains unknown , but it is typically placed around 1647-1650 since his first trace of artistic activity – a payment receipt for having collaborated as an organist at the Confraternita della Morte in Ferrara – dates back to 1667 .
We have no certain information about his education, although some have hypothesized that he trained in Venice with Friar Daniele Castrovillari, a musician from Calabria belonging to the Franciscan order, author of sacred and vocal music, who from 1663 to 1674 (the year of his death) was active in the community of the Frari in Venice , but who had previously been the organist of the cathedral of Ferrara from 1643 to 1653 .
In 1674 he performed his first oratorio, “L’Epulone” (lost), which was followed the following year by “L’esaltazione di Santa Croce” (lost). His earliest known composition is the next oratorio, “La tromba della Divina Misericordia” (1676). In 1677 , he published his first printed collection, a collection of chamber sonatas entitled “Balletti, Correnti, Gighe e Sarabande”, on the title page of which he is indicated as maestro di cappella, in Finale Emilia .
In 1680 he became choirmaster of Alessandro II della Mirandola .
On 9 April 1682 he was elected prince of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna , of which he had been a member since 1677 .
In 1683 he became choirmaster at the Accademia della Morte in Ferrara , becoming shortly after, in 1686 , also choirmaster of the Cathedral of the same city.
He left Ferrara in 1712 , where he was succeeded by his son Paolo Antonio Bassani, to take up the post of choirmaster at the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo , a city in which he dedicated himself to teaching at the Congregation of Charity until his death on 1 October 1716.
Bassani’s compositions include sacred vocal music, instrumental music, canzonettas and secular cantatas. He wrote 13 oratorios of which only 5 have survived, while the 13 operas have all been lost with the exception of some arias from Gli amori alla moda . He published 33 volumes of printed music, mainly edited in Bologna.
Quoted from Wikipedia