Tracklista: 1. L' Orfeo 2. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 3. L'incoronazione di Poppea 4. Vespro della Beata Vergine 5. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Madrigals
Tracklista:1. Domine ad adiuvandum 2. Concerto: Duo seraphim 3. Lamento d'Olimpia 4. Madrigals, Book 2: Crudel, perche mi fuggi 5. Madrigals, Book 4: Ohime, se tanto amate 6. Madrigals, Book 5: Cruda Amarilli 7. 1a parte: Lasciatemi morire 8. 2a parte: O Teseo, o Teseo mio 9. 3a parte: Dove, dove e la fede 10. 4a parte: Ahi, che non pur risponde 11. 5a parte: Misera, ancor do loco 12. L'Orfeo: Toccata 13. L'Orfeo: Act III: Scorto da te 14. Amarilli onde m'assale 15. Dolci miei sospiri 16. Canzonette: La fiera vista
Heinrich Schütz – The complete recording: In the coming year a recording of the complete works of Heinrich Schütz under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann will be released on the Carus label. Together with the Dresdner Kammerchor and many renowned soloists these works, true to historical performance practice, will be presented.Already in his Opus primus, the Italian Madrigals, Schütz emerged as an outstanding composer: In their musical quality, the 18 five-part madrigals exceed much that was still composed in the traditional madrigal style at the beginnning of the 17th century.
Tracklista: 1. Motets from the Fifth Book of Madrigals, 1605 2. Motets from the Fourth Book of Madrigals, 1603
For its 40th birthday, Musique en Wallonie begins a long and rich journey around Roland de Lassus (Mons, 1531 – Munich, 1594). In five years, five discs recorded by five European ensembles will draw a musical biography of the famous composer through unreleased works. Volume I of this anthology includes pieces dating from the 1550s, period of travelling – Naples, Rome, England, Netherlands – and the growth of Lassus’ fame. Madrigals, motets, chansons and villanelles this CD consists in are constantly impregnated by various madrigalisms, an expressive device consisting of transposing into music the notions (material, intellectual or emotional) suggested by the text.
For its 40th birthday, Musique en Wallonie begins a long and rich journey around Roland de Lassus (Mons, 1531 – Munich, 1594). In five years, five discs recorded by five European ensembles will draw a musical biography of the famous composer through unreleased works. Volume I of this anthology includes pieces dating from the 1550s, period of travelling – Naples, Rome, England, Netherlands – and the growth of Lassus’ fame. Madrigals, motets, chansons and villanelles this CD consists in are constantly impregnated by various madrigalisms, an expressive device consisting of transposing into music the notions (material, intellectual or emotional) suggested by the text.
Tracklista: 1. L' Orfeo 2. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria 3. L'incoronazione di Poppea 4. Vespro della Beata Vergine 5. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Madrigals
CD 1:1. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Symphonia. Tempro la cetra2. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: A quest'olmo, a quest'ombre3. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: O come se' gentile4. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Io son pur vezzosetta5. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: O viva fiamma6. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Vorrei baciarti, o Filli7. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Dice la mia bellissima Licori8. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ah, che non si conviene9. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ecco vicine, o bella tigre, l'oreCD 2:1. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Tornate, o cari baci2. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Soave libertate3. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: S'el vostro cor, madonna4. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Interrotte speranze5. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Augellin, che la voce6. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Vaga su spina ascosa7. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Eccomi pronta ai baci8. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Parlo, misero, o taccio?9. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Tu dormi?10. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Al lume delle stelleCD 3:1. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Lettera amorosa: Se i languidi miei sguardi [Part 1]2. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Lettera amorosa: Se i languidi miei sguardi [Part 2]3. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Lettera amorosa: Se i languidi miei sguardi [Part 3]4. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Lettera amorosa: Se i languidi miei sguardi [Part 4]5. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Lettera amorosa: Se i languidi miei sguardi [Part 5]6. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Partenza amorosa: Se pur destina [Part 1]7. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Partenza amorosa: Se pur destina [Part 2]8. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Partenza amorosa: Se pur destina [Part 3]9. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Partenza amorosa: Se pur destina [Part 4]10. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Partenza amorosa: Se pur destina [Part 5]11. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Chiome d'oro12. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 1]13. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 2]14. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 3]15. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 4]16. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 5]17. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 6]18. Madrigals, Book 7, for 1,2,3,4 & 6 voices, SV 117-145: Ballo: Tirsi e Clori [Part 7]
This disc, originally made in 1989 and led by early music pioneer Konrad Junghänel, stands up well and was a strong candidate for reissue. The Symphonia Angelica of the title was a printed madrigal collection issued by Hubert Waelrant, who was also a composer and included his own effort, Tra romor tamburi. That piece, and all the others, are Italian madrigals, and the disc provides a fair cross-section of Italian madrigals as they became famous across Europe and in England, where they stimulated the creation of the works still taken up every year by high school choirs and glee clubs. The madrigals are mostly in four or five parts, and Junghänel varies his forces nicely; some are accompanied with viols or his own lute, while others are sung unaccompanied, and the group slightly shifts with each new work -- an eminently reasonable solution. The singers involved aren't virtuosi but blend nicely, with accurate intonation. The repertoire is the most attractive feature of the performance. Centered on romantic and even sexy poetry, the disc features composers -- Giovanni de Macque, Luca Marenzio, Philippe de Monte -- whose chromatic experiments are enshrined in music history books that assumed modernism as a virtue. But these composers wrote all kinds of music, and the lighter pieces heard here would be the ones that became popular -- the more experimental pieces were more in the nature of things to be shared with connoisseurs. One of those is indeed included: the composite Mentre ti fui, with four composers each setting a single verse of the same poem. Texts are given in Italian and English; the last line of Macque's delightful Bacciami vita mia (Kiss me, life of mine) unfortunately comes out as "and then I shall leave my soul between your beautiful ips." The booklet also includes commentary in French and German (but not Italian); beyond the dry observation that "King Philip II of Spain was not exactly in Flanders for the cultural development of the country" it contains mostly specialist information. The average buyer, however, will get what the average buyer of the original book got in 1585 -- a pleasing collection of Italian madrigals. ~ James Manheim, All Music Guide