La Compagnia del Madrigale – Rore: Vieni dolce Himineo & Other Madrigals (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

La Compagnia del Madrigale – Rore: Vieni dolce Himineo & Other Madrigals (2019)
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With ‘Vieni, dolce Imeneo’, La Compagnia del Madrigale make another important stop on their compelling journey across the territory of Italian secular song with a disc devoted to one of the most significant, yet these days somewhat bypassed, composers: Cipriano de Rore.

De Rore was a Fleming who enjoyed great success notably in the Italian courts of Ferrara and Parma – but with a prestige which extended up and across Europe.

He composed in many genres but it is the secular madrigal – recorded here – where his skill was most valued, for example in creating extended and expressive melodic lines coupled with innovatory preechoes of the seconda pratica so triumphantly expressed – albeit amidst great criticism – by Claudio Monteverdi.

Glossa recordings of madrigals by Marenzio, Gesualdo and Monteverdi have already demonstrated musical pleasures, such as an uncommon vocal blend and delicacy and a meticulous dynamic control exhibited by the richly-experienced members of La Compagnia del Madrigale. Those delights are also to be experienced with these 19 madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, composed late in his career.

With texts by Petrarch, Ariosto and assorted court poets for these madrigals, essay writer Marco Bizzarini highlights one of the principal characteristic features of de Rore’s mastery when he points to the disc’s title track, ‘Vieni, dolce Imeneo’: the ideal union between poetry and music.

Tracklist:
1-01. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5 : No. 2, Da le belle contrade (03:45)
1-02. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Le vive fiamme de’ vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali : No. 16, Candido e vago fiore (02:37)
1-03. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5 : No. 1, Mentre lumi maggior (03:59)
1-04. Dario Previato – Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2 : No. 1, Un’altra volta la Germania strida (03:48)
1-05. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Le vive fiamme de’ vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali : No. 15, Poi che mi invita amore (04:55)
1-06. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5 : No. 10, Non è lasso martire (03:31)
1-07. Raffaele Giordani – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 3, Alcun non può saper (02:29)
1-08. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 24, Se ben il duol (04:27)
1-09. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Le vive fiamme de’ vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali : No. 6, Alma Susanna (03:34)
1-10. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2 : No. 5, O sonno (03:58)
1-11. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 12, Di virtù di costumi (04:02)
1-12. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Le vive fiamme de’ vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali : No. 11, Tra più beati e più sublimi cori (04:37)
1-13. Rossana Bertini – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5 : No. 13, Convien ch’ovunque (02:29)
1-14. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Chansons à 4 et 5 parties : No. 24, Vieni dolce Imeneo (03:52)
1-15. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2 : No. 9, Mia benigna fortuna (03:36)
1-16. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 6, Volgi’l tuo corso (03:21)
1-17. Francesca Cassinari – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 7, Come la notte (02:48)
1-18. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 26, L’alto signor (04:11)
1-19. La Compagnia del Madrigale – Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4 : No. 2, O morte, eterno fin (03:15)

Personnel:
Dario Previato, bass
Paola Cialdella, alto
Giulia Beatini, alto
Massimo Lombardi, tenor
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Daniele Carnovich, bass
Efix Puleo, vielle
Svetlana Fomina, viola da bracchio
Sabina Colonna Preti, viola da gamba
Rossana Bertini, soprano
Giuseppe Maletto, tenor
Francesca Cassinari, soprano
Elena Carzaniga, alto

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