CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Scherzi Musicali
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920915
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Performing artists
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Doron David Sherwin, cornett Svetlana Fomina, violin Carlo Lazzaroni, violin Efix Puleo, viola Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello Alberto Lo Gatto, violone Johanna Rose, viola da gamba Denise Mirra, viola da gamba Gabriele Palomba, theorbo & archlute Fulvio Garlaschi, theorbo & baroque guitar Michael Leopold, theorbo Marta Graziolino, triple harp Davide Pozzi, harpsichord
Production details
Recorded Chiesa di San Carlo, Modena (Italy), in February 2008 Engineered by Roberto Meo Produced by Sigrid Lee and Stefano Aresi Executive producer: Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias (00:03:00) Booklet essay: Stefano Russomanno English Français Deutsch Español
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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643)
Scherzi Musicali
01 Con que soavità 02 Ohimè ch’io cado 03 Sì dolc’è il tormento 04 Maledetto sia l’aspetto 05 Quel sguardo sdegnosetto 06 Eri già tutta mia 07 Ecco di dolci raggi 08 Et è pur dunque vero 09 La mia turca 10 Voglio di vita uscir 11 Più lieto il guardo 12 Perchè se m’odiavi 13 Lamento di Arianna
About this CD
In a certain way, this new disc from La Venexiana can be thought of as having the qualities of a pause or “interval” following the Monteverdian intensity of recent years – during which time the group has recorded the entirety of the madrigals by the Mantuan author (eight volumes), the Selva morale e spirituale and L’Orfeo – and before going on to tackle new and ambitious projects. According to the group’s director, Claudio Cavina, in these Scherzi Musicali “I have wanted to have a joke with music, taking a look at Claudio Monteverdi's oeuvre from a concept of ‘light’ music very different to that of a Quinto Libro de Madrigali or an Orfeo. Thus, we find ourselves before the mature phase of the Monteverdian output, Monteverdi as precursor, experimenter and innovator. The pizzicati from the theorbos and the harp, the melodic lines of the cornetto, the swing of the voice... we present a divertissement for performers and listeners alike.”
The core of this programme is formed by the Scherzi musicali published in Venice by Bartolomeo Magni in 1632, although pieces from other publications, such as the Arie di diversi raccolte of Vincenti (1634) and the Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze of Milanuzzi (1624) are also included. By way of contrast, the finishing touch is provided by a dazzling and moving rendition of the Lamento di Arianna in an arrangement by Cavina himself, wherein the voice of Emanuela Galli, the star for the whole disc, is draped in a string ensemble led by Svetlana Fomina.
At Glossa we are very proud to salute the musical talents of our artists, whose splendid recordings ended 2008 receiving further critical approval, important echoes of how other music-lovers have been reacting across the year. Back in September 2008 Claudio Cavina of La Venexiana received its second Gramophone Award in London when their recording of Montervedi's L'Orfeo was voted by the UK magazine's critics as the winner in the Baroque Vocal category. [read more...]
Not for the first time in their illustrious career, Claudio Cavina and his Italian vocal and instrumental ensemble La Venexiana have just received a strong critical vote of approval for their artistry, with the announcement on Thursday September 25th that they have won a coveted Classic fM Gramophone Award. Claudio Cavina was on hand to collect the Baroque Vocal Award for 2008 (decided on by the specialist critics of the UK-based Gramophone magazine) at a ceremony held in London, UK for his and La Venexiana’s recording of the fabula in musica by Claudio Monteverdi, L’Orfeo.[read more...]
“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...]