GIOSEFFO ZARLINO Canticum Canticorum Salomonis
Ensemble Plus Ultra Michael Noone
GCD 921406
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Performing artists
Ensemble Plus UltraMichael Noone Orphénica Lyra
Sally Dunkley, Grace Davidson, Clare Wilkinson, Lucy Ballard, Mark Chambers, David Martin, George Pooley, Julian Stocker, Gerry O’Beirne, Warren Trevelyan-Jones, Angus Smith, Giles Underwood, Charles Gibbs
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Recorded at St. Peter-in-Chains, London, in May 2005 Engineered and produced by Adrian Hunter Executive producer: Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias (00:03:00) Booklet essay by Cristle Collins Judd English Français Deutsch Español
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GIOSEFFO ZARLINO (c.1517-1590)
Canticum Canticorum Salomonis
01 Veni sancte spiritus 02 Osculetur me 03 Nigra sum, sed formosa 04 Si ignoras 05 Ecce tu pulchra es 06 Ego rosa saron 07 Capite nobis vulpes parvulas 08 In lectulo meo 09 Adiuro vos filiæ Ierusalem 10 Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon 11 Ego veni in hortum meum12 Pater noster – Ave Maria
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In 1541, a young musician, scholar, and recently ordained priest named Gioseffo Zarlino left his native Chioggia for Venice. In La Serenissima, he embarked on advanced studies in music, logic and philosophy, Greek and Hebrew. Such was Zarlino’s zealous quest for knowledge that he himself became known to later scholars of the Renaissance as the most highly regarded music theorist of the sixteenth century. Following in the footsteps of his esteemed teacher Adriano Willaert, he also held the prestigious post of maestro di cappella at San Marco during the Venetian basilica’s most glorious musical epoch. Yet as a composer, a vocation to which he was also called, Zarlino has long remained known, if at all, not for the evident musical qualities of his works themselves, but rather merely through the references he made to them in his own theoretical writings. In this recording, Ensemble Plus Ultra and director Michael Noone present Zarlino the composer, and introduce for the first time on disc twelve motets composed by him in the late 1540s. Ten of these motets form part of a most remarkable undertaking, an attempt to provide a complete and continuous musical setting of the biblical Canticum Canticorum Salomonis (Song of Songs of Solomon). The performers in this recording are using the first modern performing edition of these works.