Roberta Mameli, soprano
Ensemble Giardino di Delizie
Ewa Anna Augustynowicz, Karla Bocaz Munoz, Azusa Onishi, violins I
Yayoi Masuda, Natalia Kierakowicz, Lola Ottoni, violins II
Anna Skorupska, viola and violin
Valeria Brunelli, cello
Sofia Ferri, tiorba
Silvia de Rosso, Violone
Lilianna Stawarz, Harpsichord
Jörg Hannes, Organ
Two women stand at the foot of the cross: the “sinner” Mary Magdalene, torn between her fear of damnation and her hope of redemption, and Jesus’s mother Mary, who rebels against God’s counsel because she has to see her son die. Two highly dramatic scenes from the Italian baroque by Antonio Caldara and Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, performed by the entirely female baroque ensemble Giardino di Delizie from Rome and Italian soprano Roberta Mameli.
Music by A. Caldata, G. Bononcini, A. Scarlatti, A. Vivaldi, G. B. Ferrandini.