Vivaldi & Razi – Nisi Dominus « Le Poème Harmonique

Vivaldi & Razi – Nisi Dominus

“Diamant” from Opéra Magazine
“5 Diapason” from Diapason Magazine

At the time of Vivaldi, Venice was famous throughout Europe for the splendor of its processions. Every great festival brought together Venetians of all conditions in the streets, who paraded under the banners of their “brotherhoods” to the sound of laudi. These popular devotional songs, chanted in chorus and accompanied by a drum, animated the march along the calli and canals, right up to the church threshold. Fever would then give way to contemplation, while the singers sung half-improvised polyphonies from the depths of the ages, before a modern composition illustrated the baroque art of bel canto.

This program follows this ancient pattern and is crowned by Vivaldi’s superb Nisi Dominus, made famous by our countertenors but undoubtedly written for a young student at the Ospedale della Pietà – here the brilliant Eva Zaïcik, winner of the Voix Nouvelles competition, the Victoires de la musique and the Queen Elisabeth competition. The sacred masterpiece of the red-headed priest thus intersects with the repertoire of the grandiose scuole decorated by Tiepolo and Tintoretto, or that of the grandiose Basilica of San Marco.

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