Release Date: 15 September 2017
Label: Challenge Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917276022
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
This debut CD of L'Estro d'Orfeo ensemble takes its title Altri Canti d'Amor from a madrigal found in Claudio Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals. The program focuses on the music of the Italian Seicento and more precisely on the schools of northern Italy; mainly the Venetian school. It combines both instrumental and vocal pieces - the latter in instrumental versions - connected to the subject of 'love'.
"Using instruments instead of the voice may initially seem perverse for such a title, but to me, it suggests the idea of "other ways of singing about love". We thus reaffirm the great value and importance that instruments started gaining in the first half of the 17th century, where they ceased serving merely as accompaniments to the voice and gradually became the main protagonist of the musical scene, attaining a level of virtuosity that had never been explored before." - Leonor de Lera
Personnel: Leonor de Lera (violin), Josep Maria Martà (theorbo), Rodney Prada (viola da gamba), Lucia Giraudo (Baroque violin), Josué Meléndez (cornetto), Javier Núñez (harpsichord)
Tracklisting
Narratio Quartet
Piano Duo Scholtes & Janssens
Matteo Cicchitti, Musica Elegentia
Cappella Pratensis, Stratton Bull, Sollazzo Ensemble
La Sfera Armoniosa, Oscar Verhaar, Mike Fentross
Simona Marchesi, Bartolomeo Dandolo Marchesi
Ben Kim, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
L'Estro D'Orfeo
