Il generoso cor Suzanne Jerosme, Il Gusto Barocco & Jörg Halubek

• Maria Margherita Grimani (1680 - ca. 1720): La visitazione di Santa Elisabetta:
• 1 Grimani: La visitazione di Santa Elisabetta: Sinfonia della prima parte 03:52
• 2 Grimani: La visitazione di Santa Elisabetta: Sol fia pago 04:50
• Camilla de Rossi: Il figliuol prodigo:
• 3 Rossi: Il figliuol prodigo: Tu sei quella navicella 03:20
• 4 Rossi: Il figliuol prodigo: Sinfonia (Introduzione della parte prima) 02:39
• Alessandro Scarlatti: La Maddalena penitente ovvero Il Trionfo della Grazia:
• 5 Scarlatti: La Maddalena penitente ovvero Il Trionfo della Grazia: Sento all'alma nuova vita 02:12
• Cain, overo il primo omicidio:
• 6 Scarlatti: Cain, overo il primo omicidio: Madre tenera 06:04
• Maria Margherita Grimani: La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista:
• 7 Grimani: La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista: Sinfonia della prima parte 02:18
• 8 Grimani: La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista: Serenatevi miei lumi 03:42
• Camilla de Rossi: Sant'Alessio:
• 9 Rossi: Sant'Alessio: Non è mai sereno un ciglio 04:15
• 10 Rossi: Sant'Alessio: Cielo pietoso 03:49
• 11 Rossi: Sant'Alessio: Sinfonia della parte prima 02:41
• Alessandro Scarlatti: Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia:
• 12 Scarlatti: Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia: Soccorretemi cieli fedeli 03:58
• 13 Scarlatti: Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia: All' armi, ò costanza 03:56
• Camilla de Rossi: Santa Beatrice d'Este:
• 14 Rossi: Santa Beatrice d'Este: Sinfonia della prima parte 02:38
• 15 Rossi: Santa Beatrice d'Este: Ogn' affetto fora impuro 04:38
• Alessandro Scarlatti (b. 1660): Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme:
• 16 Scarlatti: Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme: Caldo sangue 04:31
• 17 Scarlatti: Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme: Se il generoso cor 04:08
• Total Runtime 01:03:31

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Camilla de Rossi and Maria Margherita Grimani, contemporaries of Alessandro Scarlatti and largely forgotten today, made remarkable contributions to the oratorio genre at a time when few women were composing - and even fewer in official circles.

Soprano Suzanne Jerosme, Jörg Halubek and Il Gusto Barocco are reviving several of their works, which have been preserved in the holdings of the Austrian National Library since the early 18th century.

Alongside arias by Alessandro Scarlatti, who helped shape the oratorio form in both Rome and Vienna, these strikingly beautiful compositions come to light - more than deserving a place among the masterpieces of their time.

Suzanne Jerosme, soprano
Il Gusto Barocco
Jörg Halubek, conductor

Suzanne Jerosme
After studying at London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Cologne University of Music and Dance, Suzanne was immediately hired by Theater Aachen and permanently employed as a member of the ensemble, where she has performed roles including Poppea (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Blanche de la Force (Dialogues des Carmélites), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Cavalli's La Calisto (title role), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Despina (Così fan tutte), and Bellezza (Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno). Suzanne Jerosme is a finalist in the Pietro Antonio Cesti International Singing Competition for Baroque Opera and was invited to the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in 2017 to sing the title role in Reinhard Keiser's Octavia.

In 2019/20, she sang the First Lady in the French version of Mozart's The Magic Flute under Hervé Niquet at the Opéra d'Avignon and the Opéra Royal de Versailles, and made her debut at the Opéra National de Lorraine in the role of Morgana in Handel's Alcina under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón. In 2020, Suzanne made her debut at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival in the role of Giuditta in Porpora's Carlo il Calvo (directed by Max Emanuel Cenčic and conducted by George Petrou), at the Theater an der Wien, and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the concert version. Suzanne will record the title role of Cleofida, Queen of India (Handel/Telemann) in Stuttgart under the musical direction of Jörg Halubek and il Gusto Barocco. In 2021/2022, Suzanne returns to the Theater an der Wien with the role of Sestia in Hasse's Cajo Fabricio and Lucinda in Caldara's Il Venceslao, and records Purcell's odes with Damien Guillon and Le Banquet Céleste. In 2023, Suzanne will make her debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, among other venues, and return to the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music with Christophe Rousset and the Concerto Theresia.

Il Gusto Barocco
"Lively, cheerful, and perfect" – this is how the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the ensemble il Gusto Barocco during its residency as the festival orchestra at the Bachwoche Ansbach. The baroque orchestra, founded in Stuttgart in 2008 by the conductor, harpsichordist, and organist Jörg Halubek, consists of a permanent circle of internationally leading virtuosos of the younger generation. It combines the musical tradition of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the connection between research and practice, and a long-standing, musical familiarity.

The musical centerpiece is the "Stuttgart Series": In addition to a wide variety of program highlights, from organ excursions to the Württemberg Court Library, the ensemble also hosts premieres and rediscoveries of forgotten Baroque operas that have brought the ensemble to prominence. Recent discoveries include the Stuttgart Court Opera ADONIS by Johann Sigismund Kusser (1699) and the premiere of a female composer: Antonia Bembo's ERCOLE AMANTE (1714). The collaborative partnership with SWR and WDR, as well as the CD labels cpo and Berlin Classics, ensures that the Stuttgart discoveries receive widespread reception and recognition from the professional world. An orchestra academy, an engagement award for young singers as part of the International Cesti Vocal Competition at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and a program line for young talents complete the portfolio.

In addition to the "Stuttgart Series," milestones include the residency as the Festival Orchestra of the Bach Week in Ansbach and the five-part Monteverdi cycle at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, which will soon conclude with L'Orfeo.

Jörg Halubek
As a conductor, harpsichordist, and organist, he specializes in early music. Premiering and reviving forgotten operas and other musical treasures is one of his trademarks. In the 2024/25 season, he will explore new sound spaces with the ensemble il Gusto Barocco as part of the Stuttgart series and in the Lake Constance region. The season will be complemented by two album releases: an album of Bach's "The Art of Fugue" is planned for mid-year, orchestrated for cornett, trombones, woodwinds, strings, and organ, and the opera "L'Ercole amante" by Antonia Bembo (1640–1720) will be released in July.

With the world premiere recording of the forgotten Baroque opera "Adonis" by Johann Sigismund Kusser (1669–1727), released in early 2024, a further rediscovery has been achieved. In November 2024, the work premiered at the Baroque festival "Winter in Schwetzingen," where Jörg Halubek conducted Guillermo Amaya's production in the Rococo Theater.

At the beginning of December 2024, he conducted a program of Mannheim Court Music, dedicated to the music-loving Elector Palatinate Carl Theodor of Austria, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim as part of the Musical Academy. The collaboration with the Lucerne Theater, where Jörg Halubek made his debut in 2024, will continue in 2025: a double bill entitled "Requiem for a Prisoner" in March will juxtapose the short opera "Il prigioniero" by Luigi Dallapiccola and Jan Dismas Zelenka's "Requiem in D major." Another highlight of the season will be the rediscovery of Johann Christian Bach's cantata "Amor vincitore," which will be performed as a staged one-act opera under his direction in May 2025 as part of the Schwetzingen Festival. Star singers from the Baroque scene, such as Julia Lezhneva and Maayan Licht, will be performing. At this year's Bach Week in Ansbach, he can also be heard in numerous events and concerts with il Gusto Barocco. For the first time, Jörg Halubek and il Gusto Barocco will be participating in the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, where they will present the program Il Generoso Cor with soprano Suzanne Jerosme. In November, he returns to Theater Basel for the revival of Simon McBurney's acclaimed production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

Past engagements have taken him to Theater Basel, the Handel Festival in Halle, and the Komische Oper Berlin, where he performed Handel's opera "Poro, Re del' Indie" directed by Harry Kupfer (2019). At the Nationaltheater Mannheim, he participated in the realization of the Monteverdi cycle: "The Return of Ulysses" (2017), directed by Markus Bothe, was followed by "The Coronation of Poppea" (2018), directed by Lorenzo Fioroni. Together with Spanish director Calixto Bieito, he presented a staged version of "Vespers of the Virgin Mary" (2018) that same year. The madrigal evening "Ombra e Luce" (2021), also with Markus Bothe, continued the cycle, which will conclude with "Orfeo" in 2026.

In addition to his work as a conductor, Jörg Halubek has been active as a harpsichordist and organist in Germany and abroad since winning the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2004.

Jörg Halubek is Professor of Organ and Historical Keyboard Instruments at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts. He studied church music, organ, and harpsichord in Stuttgart and Freiburg with Jon Laukvik and Robert Hill. At the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he specialized in historical performance practice with Jesper Christensen and Andrea Marcon. His large-scale complete recording of Bach's organ works will be completed in March 2026: His most recent release, Naumburg ∙ Störmthal, is the ninth of a total of ten double albums. He previously released his own transcribed concertos for organ and ensemble with il Gusto Barocco under the title Sonate & Concertos (2024).

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