CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Secondo Libro dei Madrigali
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920922
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Performing artists
La VenexianaClaudio Cavina, director
Rossana Bertini, soprano Nadia Ragni, soprano Claudio Cavina, countertenor Giuseppe Maletto, tenor Sandro Naglia, tenor Daniele Carnovich, bass
Production details
Playing time: 69’25 Recorded in Novara, Italy, in February 2004 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)
Secondo Libro dei Madrigali, 1590
01 Non si levava ancor l’alba novella 02 E dicea l’una sospirando allora 03 Bevea Fillide mia 04 Dolcissimi legami 05 Non giacinti o narcisi 06 Intorno a due vermiglie e vaghe labra 07 Non sono in queste rive 08 Tutte le bocche belle 09 Donna, nel mio ritorno 10 Quell’ombra esser vorrei 11 S’andasse Amor a caccia 12 Mentr’io mirava fiso 13 Ecco mormorar l’onde 14 Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori 15 Se tu mi lassi, perfida, tuo danno 16 La bocca onde l’asprissime parole 17 Crudel, perché mi fuggi? 18 Questo specchio ti dono 19 Non m’è grave il morire 20 Ti spontò l’ali, Amor, la donna mia21 Cantai un tempo e se fu dolce il canto
About this CD
Published in 1590, the Second Book of Madrigals represents, within the context of Monteverdi’s total output, the conquest of pure and immediate visual metaphor. No other Monteverdi collection overflows with so many images and descriptions of Nature. Visions of rivers, sunrises, breezes,birds, flowers, skies, fountains...
It is no coincidence that these madrigals, published by Monteverdi in the hopes of securing a position for himself in Milan, drew the attention of the court of Mantua and its duke Vincenzo Gonzaga, a great collector of artworks. A unique and exceptional chapter in the career of a musician who would progressively submerge himself in an analysis of the human spirit, the Second Book establishes the luminous coordinates of the fascinating equation between hearing and seeing. The Baroque was at the door, but these aural pictures seem to look back to the great legacy of Renaissance civilization.
The members of La Venexiana continue their journey through the entire collection of Monteverdi’s madrigals with another absolutely delightful recording, where they reach unparalleled levels of excellence in this most demanding repertoire with an exquisite display of interpretive maturity. Surely, another landmark in Glossa’s Monteverdi Edition.
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...]