Mysliveček - “Potea quel pianto” from La Passione di Gesu Cristo

Our MOZART 250 project has brought numerous lesser known composers to new audiences, and Josef Mysliveček is one of them!
He was one of very few composers whose music Mozart admired, and one of even fewer 'foreign' composers who enjoyed sustained success and popularity in Italy. Mozart met him for the first time in March 1770 in Bologna, where Mysliveček was rehearsing his new opera La Nitetti, and they met again in Milan in the autumn of 1771, when Mozart was preparing the premiere of Ascanio in Alba.
La Passione di Nostro Gesu Cristo was the fourth of five surviving oratorios that Mysliveček wrote. "Potea quel pianto", sung by the character of Mary Magdalene (performed here by soprano Alexandra Lowe), focusses on her suffering as she bids him farewell. The text is set in a darkly turbulent C minor, conjuring her anger as well as her empathy as she laments her son's dreadful plight.
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