Monteverdi - Canzonette a tre voci (Venice 1584)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95348
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 7th October 2016
Contents
Artists
ArmoniosoincantoConductor
Franco RadicchiaAbout
Monteverdi’s collection begins with a text in homage to ‘il signor Pietro Ambrosini’, to whom the publication was dedicated. It concludes with a formal expression of farewell and thanks to his listeners. In between are another 19 songs, derived from a form first devised by Orazio Vecchi, perhaps with amateur musicians and domestic settings in mind given their less elaborate qualities.
Monteverdi is prepared to be musically more radical than Vecchi, however, and while largely respecting the homophonic declamation of text which is prescribed by the genre, there are passages of exuberant ornamentation and sighing echoes according to the nature of the poetic expression, whether laughing or crying from love.
Armoniosoincanto is an ensemble of largely female voices which has been performing and recording for almost 20 years; this is their third recording for Brilliant Classics, after beautifully contoured discs of Couperin (the Masses for the Parishes and Convents, 94333) and the rather less familiar Laudario di Cortona (94872BR), a chant‐book from the Middle Ages. They are based in the regions of Umbria and Tuscany, in the heart of Italy, and made this recording in the Umbrian town of Assisi. For this recording they were joined by a mixed period‐instrument ensemble of flutes, violas, theorbo and harpsichord.
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