CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Quinto Libro dei Madrigali
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920925
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Performing artists
La VenexianaClaudio Cavina, director
Roberta Mameli, soprano Nadia Ragni, soprano Claudio Cavina, countertenor Raffaele Giordani, tenor Giuseppe Maletto, tenor Daniele Carnovich, bass Marta Graziolino, harp Anna Fontana, harpsichord
with Francesca Cassinari, Livio Cavallo, Matteo Bellotto, Svetlana Fomina, Carlo Lazzaroni, Efix Puleo, Gianni De Rosa, Caterina Dell’Agnello, Giorgio Sanvito
Production details
Playing time: 66’29 Recorded at Chiesa della BV al Colletto, Roletto (Italy), in May 2006 Engineered by Roberto Meo 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)
Quinto Libro dei Madrigali, 1605
1 Cruda Amarilli 2 O Mirtillo, Mirtill’anima mia 3 Era l’anima mia 4 Ecco, Silvio, colei 5 Ch’io t’ami 6 Che dar più vi poss’io? 7 M’è più dolce il penar per Amarilli 8 Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro 9 Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore! 10 Amor, se giusto sei 11 T’amo, mia vita! 12 E così, a poco (a 7 voci)13 Questi vaghi concenti (a 9 voci)
About this CD
While La Venexiana are still on tour taking their successful Monteverdi L’Orfeo half way around the world and are also getting ready to make new recordings of great importance for Glossa, we here are in the process of completing a collection which has already become an undeniable reference point in this field: the Monteverdi Edition, which covers the entirety of the madrigals, composed by Claudio Monteverdi during the course of his life and published in nine books, the last of them being posthumous. Right now, it is the turn of the Fifth Book to be issued, while in a few months time we willrelease the two final remaining volumes.
According to Stefano Russomanno in his as everexcellent notes for this collection, “Monteverdi’s Fifth Book of Madrigals is a pivotal work. From its height it is possible to survey in a single glance the history of the madrigal, its previous and subsequent stages. On the one hand, the new collection replicates the miraculous poetic balance of the Third Book; on the other, it presses ahead even more radically along the novel lines presented in the Fourth Book. [...] Even more striking and emblematic of the new era is the presence of the basso continuo, which is mandatory in the last six madrigals of the Fifth Book and optional in the rest. [...] The door leading to drama and the representative style was now open. Monteverdi would not be long in crossing it: two years later, L’Orfeo would come to light.” And there is nobody better than La Venexiana to uncover for us the fascinating evolution of Italian music at one of its greatest moments...
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...]