Banchieri Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso
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Composer or Director: Adriano Banchieri, Alessandro Striggio
Label: Opus 111
Magazine Review Date: 3/1996
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 60
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: OPS30-137
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: La Caccia Dalle gelate braccia di Titone (4vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Su, su, presto alla caccia (5vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Ecco ch'al bosco siam vicini omai (6vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Mirate a quei cinghiali (6vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Ecco il sol chiaro dianzi che s'asconde (7vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Il cicalamento Nella vaga stagion che premer suole |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Buon giorno, belle donne! (7vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Ho udito che la fante (7vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Non ti ricordi quando, oggi fa l'anno (7vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Il cicalamento delle donne al bucato et la caccia, Movement: Orsù stendiamo questi panni (7vv) |
Alessandro Striggio, Composer
Alessandro Striggio, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
| Festino nella sera del Giovedì Grasso avanti Cen |
Adriano Banchieri, Composer
Adriano Banchieri, Composer Concerto Italiano Rinaldo Alessandrini, Conductor |
Author: Iain Fenlon
The centrepiece of this record is Adriano Banchieri’s depiction of an entertainment on the evening of a major holiday (Giovedi grasso – literally “fat Thursday”) during the sixteenth century. In common with his other ‘madrigal-comedies’, this is an ingeniously constructed sequence of short, pithy and for the most part lighthearted madrigals (some of them strophic) arranged around the lightest of narrative frameworks. In practice this music could have been sung in a domestic context simply as music in its own right; equally it could have been performed in a staged version, the added action being improvised along the lines of the short characterizations which precede each madrigal (and which on this record are usefully declaimed). For all its lightheartedness (the result is a sort of commedia dell’arte with music), Banchieri’s writing is varied, effective and often achieves its results by quite subtle means.
Descending from the Olympian heights of their much acclaimed records of Monteverdi, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano do not lose a single opportunity to squeeze every ounce of wit from the text, from the out-of-tune singing and cracked voices of the old men from Chioggia to the imitations of the sound of the Jew’s harp and the hilarious medley of animal sounds in the “Contrappunto bestiale alla mente”. The result is exhilarating and supremely entertaining – it is difficult to imagine a more effective reading.
The outer layers of the sandwich are provided by two of Alessandro Striggio’s sequences of descriptive madrigals whose less imaginative, more conventional writing is expertly and sensitively rendered. All in all this makes for the perfect piece of light listening for any renaissance enthusiast.'
Descending from the Olympian heights of their much acclaimed records of Monteverdi, Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano do not lose a single opportunity to squeeze every ounce of wit from the text, from the out-of-tune singing and cracked voices of the old men from Chioggia to the imitations of the sound of the Jew’s harp and the hilarious medley of animal sounds in the “Contrappunto bestiale alla mente”. The result is exhilarating and supremely entertaining – it is difficult to imagine a more effective reading.
The outer layers of the sandwich are provided by two of Alessandro Striggio’s sequences of descriptive madrigals whose less imaginative, more conventional writing is expertly and sensitively rendered. All in all this makes for the perfect piece of light listening for any renaissance enthusiast.'
Banchieri Il Festino del Giovedì Grasso
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