Salve Regina del signor Monteverde | Brilliant Classics 94286

Salve Regina del signor Monteverde

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 94286

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th August 2012

Contents

About

Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi were two of the most influential musical figures in 17th-century Italy. While the former’s boundary-pushing madrigals, operas and sacred works changed the course of Baroque vocal music irrevocably, the latter was one of the first – and most prominent – composers to devote serious attention to composing for the keyboard.

This new recording celebrates the influence that these two composers continue to exert over performers and audiences today, and the fascination that their music inspires, through a selection of motets and instrumental pieces, performed with precision and authority by Il Pegaso and Maurizio Croci.

Of particular interest are a handful of new discoveries: three Marian antiphons by Monteverdi, preserved in a music print held at the Biblioteka Uniwersytecka in Wroclaw, Poland, and pieces drawn from a recently-unearthed notebook of Frescobaldi’s, including early stages of extant works.

With the addition of several better known compositions, this intriguing collection illuminates some less familiar aspects of both composers’ oeuvres, and places recent musicological discoveries within reach of listeners.

In their debut recording, the new ensemble Il Pegaso, led by Maurizio Croci, deliver performances invested with passion and expertise.

Contents:
1. Monteverdi: Regina Caeli a due tenori e basso
2. Frescobaldi: Aria detta la Frescobalda Monicha – Balletto
3. Monteverdi: Salve Regina a due tenori e basso
4. Frescobaldi: Toccata (Paris autograph)
5. Monteverdi: Salve Regina, tenore solo (Ghirlanda Sacra, 1625)
6. Bellerofonte Castaldi: Capriccetto Galante (Capricci, 1622)
7. Monteverdi: Salve regina a due tenori
8. Frescobaldi: Aria detta la Frescobalda (II Libro di Toccate, 1637)
9. Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum, basso solo (Messe e Salmi, 1650)
10. Frescobaldi: Toccata con il contrabbasso ovvero pedale
11. Monteverdi: Salve Regina, tenore solo
12. Frescobaldi: Balletto (Paris autograph)
13. Frescobaldi: Corrente (Paris autograph)
14. Frescobaldi: Recercar secondo (Recercari, et canzoni franzese, 1615)
15. Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum, tenore solo
16. Frescobaldi / Anonymous: Toccata avanti la Romanesca
17. Frescobaldi: Partite sopra Passacagli (II Libro di Toccate, 1627)
18. Frescobaldi: Toccata (Paris autograph)
19. Monteverdi: Salve Regina a due tenori e basso

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