CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920928 (3 CDs)
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Performing artists
La VenexianaClaudio Cavina, director
Emanuela Galli, soprano Alena Dantcheva, soprano Nadia Ragni, soprano Roberta Mameli, soprano Claudio Cavina, countertenor Kiersti Odegaard, alto Giuseppe Maletto, tenor Sandro Naglia, tenor Giovanni Cantarini, tenor Mario Cecchetti, tenor Daniele Carnovich, bass Matteo Bellotto, bass
Marta Graziolino, harp Gabriele Palomba, theorbo Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord
Svetlana Fomina, Daniela Godio, Carlo Lazzaroni, Stefano Marcocchi, Efix Puleo, Gianni de Rosa, Rodney Prada, Rebeca Ferri, Caterina dell’Agnello, Giorgio Sanvito
Production details
Playing time: 70’00 + 50’03 + 73’24 Recorded in Mondovì and Roletto, Italy, in November 2004, February 2005 and March 2005 Engineered by Davide Ficco Produced by Sigrid Lee & La Venexiana Executive producer: Carlos Céster Editorial assistant: María Díaz Art direction & design: oficina tresminutos 00:03:00 Booklet essay: Stefano Russomanno Booklet in English-Français-Deutsch-Español-Italiano
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali, 1638Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi
CD I 1 Sinfonia 2 Altri canti d’Amor 3 Hor che ’l ciel e la terra 4 Gira il nemico insidioso 5 Se vittorie sì belle 6 Ogni amante è guerrier7 Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
CD II 1 Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo 2 Armato il cor 3 Introduzione al Ballo: Volgendo il ciel 4 Ballo: Movete al mio bel suon 5 Altri canti di Marte 6 Vago augelletto che cantando vai 7 Mentre vaga Angioletta 8 Ardo e scoprir, ahi lasso 9 Dolcissimo uscignolo
CD III 1 Chi vuol aver felice e lieto il core 2 O sia tranquillo il mare 3 Lamento della Ninfa 4 Ninfa che scalzi il piede 5 Perchè t’en fuggi, o Fillide 6 Non partir ritrosetta 7 Su, su, su, pastorelli vezzosi 8 Ballo delle Ingrate
About this CD
What is a madrigal? An unsuspecting listener of Monteverdi’s Eighth Book would have trouble answering this question. The flagrant heterogeneousness of this collection tells us that for Monteverdi, the madrigal has gone from being a genre endowed with univocal traits to encompass a multitude of forms, whose objective nevertheless continues to be the representation of human passions through the link between oratione (the poetic text) and armonia (the music). We can say that Monteverdian madrigals make their transition from contemplation to beating pulse, from the look to the gesture, from sight to touch, in the Eighth Book. The collection hangs from a network of impossible balances. The traditional traits of the genre evaporate in what is precisely its last and most glorious celebration. An ambiguous terrain that, nevertheless, reveals itself as being full of possibilities and developments. The Madrigals of Love and War can appear as Monteverdi’s testament in this field, but also as an extraordinary range of proposals for the future. Even in the early 21st century, Monteverdi continues to speak to us with the force and immediacy ofa ‘contemporary’.
La Venexiana’s most eagerly anticipated recording, their rendering of the Eighth Book is here to stay as the definitive Italian version of what is Monteverdi’s most important publication together with L’Orfeo. Their forward-looking, suprisingly ‘modern’ vision of what key compositions such as the Ballo delle Ingrate, the Lamento della Ninfa or the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda should sound like is profoundly moving and will leave nobody cold. Definitely, this set will mark a ‘before’ and an ‘after’ in the interpretation of Monteverdi’s Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi.
“I really do not think that there is one composer who can be rightly compared to this genius.”
In completing their masterful Monteverdi Edition, Claudio Cavina and La Venexiana have returned to the beginning – to the Madrigali a cinque voci… Libro primo – of Monteverdi’s exploration of the madrigalian art form, a journey which was to occupy the composer for more than 50 years of his life across his staying in the cities of Cremona, Mantua and Venice. In this First Book, published in 1587 when the composer was barely 20 years old yet demonstrably showing clear evidence of his approaching maturity, La Venexiana’s performances are again faithful to Monteverdi’s passion for the written word – above all to the weight theme of love. In this final release in the Monteverdi Edition Cavina adds a twist in the tail by including on this new CD the madrigals from the posthumous Libro Nono put together by the composer’s Venetian publisher. With the rerelease of La Venexiana’s recording of Il Terzo Libro (complete with a new essay penned by Stefano Russomanno), eight volumes now comprise Glossa’s Monteverdi Edition, all available within the attractively and imaginatively unified design style which has become the hallmark of the label. [read more...]