Lotti | Crucifixus [á 8; The Cambridge Singers]

A famous motet for eight voices from "Credo" in F, composed in before 1717 by Antonio Lotti.

This edition comes from the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, a manuscript of the complete Credo. Lotti worked in Dresden from 1717-1719, but it is likely that the work was written in Venice before this time. The use of two violas is indicative of Venetian practice, rather than that of Dresden. Ancient Groove Music has also discovered manuscripts in which the Credo is part of a complete mass setting in F, the Missa Sancti Christophori, also available.
The instruments play throughout the work, except for the Crucifixus, where the choir divides into 8 parts, accompanied only by the continuo. The strings then return in fanfare, to proclaim the Et resurrexit.
The major editorial tasks are the creation of a part reduction for the vocal score; realising the figured bass; and the transfer of source accidentals in the Crucifixus into the key signature.
This beautiful motet is a section of a Credo in F, for four voices with string and continuo accompaniment, found in a manuscript in Dresden. Lotti lived and worked in Dresden from 1717-1719, though the work was likely written in Venice before that. For this section of the Credo, the continuo alone backs the choir; the remaining instruments are tacet, and the choir doubles to 8 parts. The excerpt's modern popularity comes from its publication in an 1838 collection of sacred music by Friedrich Johan Rochlitz (1769 - 1842), ‘Sammlung vorzuglicher Gesangstiicke vom Ursprung gesetzmassiger Harmonie bis auf die neue Zeit’ (Important Pieces from the Origin of Regular Harmony to Modern Times).
This edition comes from the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, a manuscript of the complete Credo in an Italian hand on Venetian paper. (The Credo itself is a movement of a complete mass found in Prague, the Missa Sancti Christophori).
The original key signature has only one flat; E and A flats in the score have therefore been subsumed into the key signature to retain a familiarity with previous editions. The major editorial task is realising the figured bass and adjusting the figures for the revised key signature. Double barlines, cautionary accidentals, commas and fermata are editorial.

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[BéatriceBrizion]

Superbe, et parfaitement interprété 👌👌

[altareggo]

I ADORE the Cambridge Singers!!! Thanks so much for putting this on YouTube for all to enjoy.

[MusicReadingforAll]

😢We can be So Cruel to On Another. The Story of Good Friday Tells Us He Suffered So We May Be Forgiven as He Forgave Those Who Persecuted and Crucified Him😢

[talesfromunderthemoon]

I can imagine what kind of nightmare Pontius Pilate's wife suffered through this part.

[juanpablovelez]

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