I Disinvolti - Motets From The Song Of Songs Vulnerasti Cor Meum - Import CD

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I Disinvolti

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Exquisite selection of music. A collection of motets that captures the rawness of early Italian Baroque religious music with great elegance. This is an album of church music by composers active in various parts of northern Italy at the beginning of the 17th century at the same time as Monteverdi, Caccini, and others, performed by three singers and three bass continuo players in a variety of combinations. The Renaissance polyphonic church music, which was based on the intertwining of multiple voices, gave birth to the Baroque concertato style, which emphasized the presence of solo parts, and from there, a new performing art with solo voices called opera was born around 1600. The program here is mainly composed of works from about 10 years later, when a new type of small church music (motet) with several solo parts supported by basso continuo was taking root. With the exception of Monteverdi, most of the works are by composers who are rarely performed, but the album is full of fresh surprises in each track, including beautiful and sensuous melodies, extremely bold modulations, narrative solo singing, and interesting new interpretations of Renaissance language. The album's richness, filled with fresh surprises on each track, is a strong indication of the close collaboration between research and performance practice in Italy, the home of ancient music, and the accumulation of experience.As the liner notes explain, "In the early Baroque, the music inside and outside the church was surprisingly close to each other," the content of the works could be mistaken for a secular madrigale, which is a characteristic of this collection of works with lyrics from the "Song of Songs," which contains some of the most inflammatory and sensual passages from the Bible. The difference between the two is due to the fact that they are all taken from the "Song of Songs," which is one of the most incendiary and sensual works in the Bible. To emphasize the similarity between the sacred and secular aspects of the works, the orchestra is also very ingenious, using, for example, the lirone, an instrument with resonant strings that was used in famous operatic scenes in those days, and a chapter from Monteverdi's "Evening Prayer of the Virgin Mary" is accompanied by only one stringed instrument, like a lute song. The performance is also noteworthy for its ingenious arrangement. (Naxos Japan) Includes 1. giovanni valentini(c.1582-1649):Vulnerasti cor meum you have broken my heart(1615)* 2. 2. francesco Casati (b. unknown, active c. 1615-1617):Vulnerasti cor meum you have broken my heart(1617)* Serafino Patta (b. unknown, active circa 1606-1619):Surge propera Wake up, my love (1609-1611)* 4. Alessandro Grandi(1590-1630):O quam tu pulchra es Oh, how beautiful you are(1610-1628) Orazio Tarditi(1602-1677):Quam speciosa How beautiful, O daughter of Jerusalem(1629 ? /1638)* 6. Giulio Cesare Monteverdi(c.1573-1630):Dilectus meus my heart yearns for you(1620) Giovanni Banci(date of birth unknown,(active c. 1619):Ego flos campi I am a wild flower (1619)* 8. Adriano Banchieri(1568-1634):Descendi in hortum meum I went into my garden(1610-1616)* 9. 9. ignazio donati(c.1568-1638):O Maria dilecta mea O Maria, my beloved(1619)* Federico Margarini (b. unknown, active c. 1618):Quam pulchra es how beautiful (1618) 11. claudio monteverdi(1567-1643):Nigra sum my skin is dark (from "Evening Prayer of the Virgin Mary" [1610]) Giovanni Battista Riccio (b. unknown; d. 1643): "Nigra sum" from "The Evening Prayer of the Blessed Virgin Mary" (1610)(active circa 1609-1621):Tota pulchra es You are simply beautiful(1620)* 13. 13. c. Monteverdi: Ego dormio I am asleep (1625) 14. leone leoni (c.1560-1627): Egredimini filiae Sion Go, daughters of Sion (1606-1621)* 15. 15. giovanni lovetta(1596/99-1668):Surge propera Arise, my beloved(1635-1640)* 16. giovanni antonio rigatti(c.1613-1648):Surge columba mea wake up, my white dove you(1643)* 17. Giovanni Bernardo Colombi (b. unknown, active c. 1603-1621):providebam Dominum I am always before the Lord (1619)* *World premiere recording Performer I. Dzinvolti (vocal & ancient instrumental ensemble) Massimo Altieri (tenor) Massimo Lombardi(Tenor,Conductor) Guglielmo Buonsanti (bass) Noelia Revelte-Leke (tenor gamba, bass gamba, rilone) Marco Saccadin(theorbo) Nicolas Ramon(Organ, Harpsichord) 1/4 comma Mean Tone A=440 Hz Recorded: June 14-18, 2020 and July 14 and 15, 2021 Church of St. Maurizio the Martyr & St. Compagni, Braino (Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Northern Italy)