MARENZIO Quinto libro di madrigali
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Composer or Director: Luca Marenzio
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Glossa
Magazine Review Date: 05/2015
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 64
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: GCD922804
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Leggiadrissima eterna primavera |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Amatemi ben mio...per che sdegn'il mio core (Wds. |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Ecco che 'l ciel a noi chiar'et sereno (Wds. Troja |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Nel dolce seno della bella Clori (Wds. Tasso) |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Rivi, fontane e fiumi all'aur'al cielo |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Come fuggir per selv'ombrosa e folta (Wds. della C |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Baci soavi e cari (Wds. Guarini) |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Uscite, uscite ninfe |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: S'a veder voi non vengo alma mia luce |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Coppia di donne altera |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Con la sua man la mia |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Giunt'a un bel font'io trasmutato in fiore |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti (Wds. Guicciar |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Candide perle |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Vivrò dunque lontano |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
| Madrigals, Book 5 (Il quinto libro de madrigali), Movement: Spiri dolce Favonio Arabi odori (Wds. Trojano) |
Luca Marenzio, Composer
La Compagnia del Madrigale Luca Marenzio, Composer |
Author: David Vickers
It is no mean feat that this recording has been produced by the singers themselves, and engineered by their fully participating tenor Giuseppe Maletto. Self-critical perspective is clearly not a problem for these artists, who freely reorganise Marenzio’s madrigals into a sequence different from the original published order, and three additional madrigals are included from contemporaneous mixed anthologies. Marenzio placed his 16 minute setting of the poet Guarini’s canzone ‘Baci soavi e cari’ near the end of the book but here it forms the emotional centrepiece of the recording: the unfurling description of a lover’s kisses permit all kinds of glorious opportunities for the singers’ seemingly telepathic understanding for chiaroscuro, impeccable tuning and innate grammatical sense. Lively antiphonal exchanges between the three upper and three lower voices in ‘Leggiadre ninfe e pastorelli amanti’ demonstrate their senses for harmonic shape and texture. Suffering, grief and melancholy are less conspicuous in this particular collection but are articulated beautifully in the book’s final piece, ‘Vivrò dunque lontano’, as each piercingly sweet dissonance resolves smoothly into blissful concord.
MARENZIO Quinto libro di madrigali
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