Monteverdi - Madrigali Libri V & VI
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95659
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 16th March 2018
Contents
Artists
Le Nuove MusicheConductor
Krijn KoetsveldWorks
Madrigals, Book 5: SV94-106Madrigals, Book 6: SV107-116
Artists
Le Nuove MusicheConductor
Krijn KoetsveldAbout
With these two books of madrigals Monteverdi unequivocally made his forward‐thinking position clear in the heated debate over musical aesthetics that had been raging fiercely in Florentine artistic circles. Defying his critics, he distanced himself from conservative practices by declaring his own methods a ‘second practice’, the seconda prattica. He abandoned the confines of a single mode, freely adding piquant dissonance to underpin emotionally charged words in the text, thus heightening the drama. He also began exploiting the basso continuo as an independent harmonic foundation for melody – the dawn of monody, a solo‐and-accompaniment style that would surpass polyphony as the basis for the music of so many later generations of composers. Le Nuove Musiche’s approach to Monteverdi is both dedicated and informed. They bring the past into the present, considering questions that were asked in the Renaissance and are still relevant in our present musical landscape, thereby making Early Music as new today as any other, while maintaining the highest standards of performance authenticity.
Recorded in The Netherlands in 2017
Contains the sung texts in the original Italian and English translation
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