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)
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Tras completar su fundamental trilogía Dufay para Glossa (con dos volúmenes de motetes y uno de chansons) y antes de emprender su siguiente proyecto a gran escala, Giuseppe Maletto y Cantica Symphonia han decidido grabar, con el núcleo vocal del grupo y a solas con los micrófonos, el que probablemente sea el disco más personal de su carrera. Resultado de una serie de íntimas sesiones repartidas entre 2007 y 2008, todas ellas en la acústica en la que ensayan, actúan y graban desde hace ya muchos años (la iglesia piamontesa del«Colletto», escenario también de innumerables grabaciones de La Venexiana, y cuyo quinto centenario se está conmemorando), Maletto y sus cantantes nos regalan con este disco una antología de motetes y laudes inspirados por la Virgen María, gran parte de ellos inéditos. A los renacentistas Mouton, Isaac, Willaert o Peñalosa se unen para esta ocasión dos compositores vivos, Carlo Galante y Yakov Gubanov, con obras escritas especialmente para Cantica Symphonia. Exquisito y original disco a cappella, pues, de uno de los conjuntos de música antigua más respetados del momento.
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...]