Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 62:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OPS 2-117 | Recorded: 1994
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 62:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | OPS 2-117 | Recorded: 1994
Italian Renaissance composer Luca Marenzio was internationally recognized as the leading composer of madrigals at the height of his career, in the last two decades of the sixteenth century. He was so popular (and the sales of his music so lucrative) that within years of his death, both Flemish and German publishers had issued volumes of his complete five and six part madrigals, an honor almost unheard of at the time. Marenzio's madrigals, while anticipating the songlike lyricism of monody that would come to dominate vocal music of the early Baroque, made full use of the textural and expressive qualities of Renaissance polyphony. His music was not quite as adventurous as Gesualdo's, but it still pushed at the harmonic conventions of the time in order to draw out the emotion of the texts with the maximum expressivity. Palestrina, the paragon of polyphonic correctness, is known to have despised Marenzio for placing expressive content above the rules of proper counterpoint.
In this collection taken from Marenzio's single book of madrigals for four voices (five and six voices being the norm), Rinaldo Alessandrini has selected 21 works, using texts by a variety of poets, that are remarkable for the emotional depth and inventiveness of the text setting, the sure handling of harmonies that are sometimes vertiginously chromatic, and their expressive range. Alessandrini leads four singers and a small instrumental ensemble of Concerto Italiano in impassioned performances. The singers have distinctive, lovely voices, and each sings with warmth and transparent expressiveness, but at the same time, their blend is gorgeously rich and smooth, an ideal combination for these madrigals. Opus 111's sound is immaculate and wonderfully present. The CD should be of strong interest to fans of Renaissance vocal music and superlative ensemble singing.–Stephen Eddins
Performer:
Rossana Bertini, soprano
Claudio Cavina. alto
Giuseppe Maletto, tenore
Sergio Foresti, basso
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini, direttore
Track List:
Madrigals for 4 voices, Book 1 (Madrigali…libro primo a 4 voci)
01. Non vidi mai dopo notturna pioggia
02. Dissi a l'amata mia lucida stella
03. Veggo, dolce mio bene
04. O bella man, che mi distringi 'l core [1a parte] / Candido leggiadretto e caro guanto [2a parte]
05. Non al suo amante piú Dïana piacque
06. Hor vedi, Amor, che giovinetta donna
07. Apollo, s'ancor vive il bel desio [1a parte] / E per virtú de l'amorosa speme [2a parte]
08. Nova angeletta sovra l'ale accorta
09. Vedi le valli e i campi che si smaltano
10. Chi vòl udire i miei sospiri in rime
11. Madonna, sua mercè, pur una sera
12. Vezzosi augelli, in fra le verdi fronde
13. Ahi dispietata morte, ahi crudel vita!
14. Dolci son le quadrella [1a parte]
15. Menando un giorno gl'agni presso un fiume
16. I lieti amanti e le fanciulle tenere
17. Tutto 'l dí piango [1a parte] / Lasso, che pur da l'uno a l'altro sole [2a parte]
18. Zefiro torna, e 'l bel tempo rimena [1a parte] / Ma per me, lasso, tornano i piú gravi [2a parte]
19. Sul carro de la mente auriga siedi [1a parte] / Corbo malvaggio, ursachio aspro e salvatico [2a parte]
20. Lasso, dicea: Perché venisti Amore
21. Dialogo fra Ofelia, Elenco e Montano: Vienne Montan, mentre le nostre tormora [1a parte]
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Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Luca Marenzio: Madrigali a quattro voci, Libro Primo 1585 (1994)
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