Antonio LOTTI - Crucifixus a8 / THE TALLIS SCHOLARS

Composer: Antonio Lotti (1667 - 1740), «Crucifixus» a 8 (from Credo in F Major for SATB, strings and continuo) 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). THE TALLIS SCHOLARS, Directed by Peter Pillips. TEXT: Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato, passus et sepultus est. (He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, he suffered and was buried). #TheTallisScholars #LottiCrucifixus #PeterPhillips