A pesar de su reciente fundación, La Compagnia del Madrigale ya se puede considerar como el conjunto madrigalístico preeminente en la escena actual de la música antigua. La elección del nombre del grupo se inspiró en la larga amistad y experiencia compartidas por sus cantantes a lo largo de dos décadas de actuaciones en todo el mundo. Los miembros fundadores del conjunto, Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto y Daniele Carnovich, además de cultivar prestigiosas carreras individuales, han trabajado lado a lado durante más de 20 años, y su comprensión colectiva del mundo del madrigal ha jugado un papel fundamental a la hora de situar en la elite artística a grupos como Concerto Italiano o La Venexiana.
Published in 1611 one year after Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Gesualdo’s Sesto Libro di Madrigali offers a strikingly different reflection of Italian music as the Renaissance era evolved into the Baroque. The emotional charge and intensity of the texts for Gesualdo’s madrigals, allied to a complex music involving chromaticisms and dissonances, helped create a collection that has intrigued, delighted and puzzled its listeners from the point of its publication on to our own days. To offer a faithful interpretation of these five-part madrigals from the Sesto Libro in modern times requires musicians of great skill and experience, voices of beauty and clarity, and a sense of musical direction between the singers which is united and consistent. La Compagnia del Madrigale fulfils all these conditions (and expectations) on their new Glossa recording. To understand more about what drives La Compagnia del Madrigale, Daniele Carnovich and Giuseppe Maletto were asked to share their views on approaching the Sesto Libro di Madrigali by Carlo Gesualdo, the Prince of Venosa. [read more...]