STELLA DEL NOSTRO MAR
Cantica Symphonia
GCD P31905
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Performing artists
Laura Fabris, soprano Giuseppe Maletto, tenor Fabio Furnari, tenor Marco Scavazza, baritone
Production details
Total playing time: 74’49’’ Recorded at Chiesa della B.V. Maria del Monte Carmelo al Colletto, Italy, in May, June and August 2007 and April 2008Engineered and produced by Giuseppe MalettoExecutive producer: Carlos CésterDesign: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essay: Giovanni ZanovelloEnglish Français Italiano Deutsch Español
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Past and present reflections of the Marian inspiration
1 Ave Maria, virgo serena (Frater Petrus) 2 Ave fuit prima salus (Jean Mouton) 3 Salve regina (Anonymous) 4 Sancta mater istud agas (F. de Peñalosa) 5 Alma redemptoris mater (Heinrich Isaac) 6 Stella del nostro mar (Carlo Galante) 7 Virgo prudentissima (Ludwig Senfl) 8 Ave Maria, gratia plena (Adrian Willaert) 9 Ave regina caelorum (Anonymous) 10 Sub tuum praesidium (Heinrich Isaac) 11 Gaude virgo mater Christi (Josquin Des Prez) 12 O Maria, virgo pia (Jean Mouton) 13 O praeclarissima (Heinrich Isaac)14 Benedicta et venerabilis (Yakov Gubanov)
About this CD
After completing their original trilogy devoted to Guillaume Dufay (two volumes of motets and one of chansons) and before setting out on their next large-scale project, Giuseppe Maletto and Cantica Symphonia reduced their ensemble to its vocal core and arranged themselves in front of the microphones - in order to make what quite possibly will be the most personal disc of their careers. The result was a series of intimate sessions made across 2007 and 2008, all of them in that acoustic in which they have been rehearsing, performing and recording for many years (the Piedmontese church of the "Colletto" - the scene of plenty of La Venexiana's recordings too, and whose quincentenary is currently being commemorated), with Maletto and his singers delivering for us an anthology of motets and laude inspired by the Virgin Mary, many of them hitherto little-known. To the Renaissance compositional voices of Mouton, Isaac, Willaert and Peñalosa are joined for this occasion two living composers, Carlo Galante and Yakov Gubanov, with works written especially for Cantica Symphonia. An excellent and original a capella disc, performed by one of today’s most invigorating early music ensembles.
For many years Cantica Symphonia has devoted much performing, musicological and recording energy over the music of the French composer Guillaume Dufay. Born at the dawn of the 15th century, Dufay’s musical career looked back to medieval conventions and forward to the early Renaissance. He was a much-travelled figure and was regularly present as musician, composer and emissary of church and secular powers at the many Ecumenical Councils held by the Roman Catholic Church during these turbulent political times. Dufay was often called on to write motets for important occasions such as the dedication of the Duomo of Florence – Nuper rosarum flores – or an especially critical meeting between the Pope, Eugenius IV and the Emperor, Sigismund – Supremum est mortalibus bonum (the names of both these two are to be found within the words of the motet). [read more...]