GIACHES DE WERT Madrigals
GCD C80911
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La Venexiana Rossana Bertini, Valentina Coladonato, Nadia Ragni, sopranos Claudio Cavina, countertenor & direction Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia, tenors Daniele Carnovich, bass Gabriele Palomba, Franco Pavan, lutes
Production details
Total playing time 58:27 Recorded in Roletto (Chiesa della BV al Colletto), Italy, in April 2002 Engineered by Davide Ficco Produced by Sigrid Lee & La Venexiana
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GIACHES DE WERT (1535-1596)Madrigals
I. Madrigals with texts from ‘La Gierusalemme liberata’ (Torquato Tasso)
1 Sovente, allor (8th Book) 2 Giunto alla tomba (7th Book) 3 Usciva omai (8th Book) 4 Vezzosi augelli (8th Book) 5 Forsennata gridava (8th Book) 6 Qual musico gentil (8th Book) 7 Misera non credea (8th Book) 8 Giunto alla tomba (7th Book, instr.)
II. Madrigals with texts from ‘Il pastor fido’ (Battista Guarini)
9 O primavera gioventù (11th Book) 10 Ah, dolente partita (11th Book) 11 Udite lagrimosi (11th Book) 12 Cruda Amarilli (11th Book)
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Giaches de Wert, a Flemish composer linked to the courts of Mantua and Ferrara, paved the way for the innovations in madrigalistic writing, that seconda prattica which became associated with Monteverdi. This recording features some of his later madrigalistic compositions, on texts of Torquato Tasso’s La Gierusalemme liberata and Battista Guarini’s Il pastor fido. The historical La Venexiana singers (including Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto, Sandro Naglia, Daniele Carnovich and of course Claudio Cavina) deliver their best for this milestone rendering of a lesser known reperory.