CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI Settimo Libro dei Madrigali
La Venexiana Claudio Cavina
GCD 920927 (2 CDs)
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Performing artists
La VenexianaClaudio Cavina, director
Rossana Bertini, soprano Elena Cecchi Fedi, soprano Nadia Ragni, soprano Gloria Banditelli, alto Claudio Cavina, countertenor Giuseppe Maletto, tenor Sandro Naglia, tenor Daniele Carnovich, bass Paul Beier, theorbo Franco Pavan, theorbo Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord plus 12 more instrumentalists
Production details
Playing time: 65’27 + 70’47 in February and September 1998 Engineered by Davide Ficco Produced by 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)
Concerto. Settimo Libro dei Madrigali, 1619
CD I 1 Symphonia - Tempro la Cetra 2 Ohimè, dov’è il mio ben 3 Ah, che non si conviene 4 Vaga su spina ascosa 5 Se i languidi miei sguardi 6 Chiome d’oro 7 Interrotte speranze 8 Tu dormi? 9 Ecco vicine, o bella Tigre 10 Non è di gentil core 11 Eccomi pronta ai baci 12 Soave libertate 13 Vorrei baciarti 14 Se’l vostro cor15 A quest’olmo
CD II 1 Con che soavità 2 Parlo, miser, o taccio? 3 Perché fuggi tra salci 4 Augellin 5 O come sei gentile 6 Se pur destina7 Amor che deggio far 8 Non vedrò mai le stelle 9 Io son pur vezzosetta 10 Al lume delle stelle 11 Tornate, o cari baci 12 O viva fiamma13 Dice la mia belissima Licori14 Tirsi e Clori. Ballo
About this CD
In 1619 Monteverdi dedicated his Seventh Book of Madrigals to Catherine de’ Medici, Duchess of Mantua. He chooses a title which in itself is a declaration of intentions: Concerto. The concerto’s dimension implies a certain diversity, and in this sense the Seventh Book marks a turning-point. The new publication renounces the classic five-voice setting (that had monopolized the first six books) in favour of a very ample formal variety: madrigals for one, two, three, four and six voices are found side by side with “other song genres”, as the composer specifies on the frontispiece. In its extreme variety of accents, forms and settings (for the first time the instruments have a prominent role and are not limited to that of continuo), the Seventh Book forms a kind of imaginary theatre: stories which unfold and disappear, fragments of idylls, tragedies and even comedies, but of whose protagonists, temporal and spatial setting we are totally unaware.
Glossa retrieves for its Monteverdi Edition a recording from 1998, which marked the beginning of the love affair between La Venexiana and the great Claudio. In this carefully revised edition with new texts, translations, and design, listeners and readers will find an inexhaustible fountain of pleasure through a delightful musical and poetic journey to early 17th-century Venice.
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...]