De Macque - Madrigals & Organ Works | CPO 7779772

De Macque - Madrigals & Organ Works

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 7779772

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 4th January 2019

Contents

Artists

Edoardo Bellotti (organ solo)
Weser-Renaissance Bremen

Conductor

Manfred Cordes

Works

Macque, Giovanni de

Capricci e Canzoni for solo organ
Sesto libro de madrigali de 5 voci (selection)

Artists

Edoardo Bellotti (organ solo)
Weser-Renaissance Bremen

Conductor

Manfred Cordes

About

Giovanni de Macque (1548-1614) was a member of the last generation of Franco-Flemish composers during Europe’s early modern period. Although he is hardly known today, he enjoyed great esteem during his lifetime. The lion’s share of De Macque’s oeuvre is formed by madrigals for four to six voices. Moreover, he composed pieces known as madrigaletti (the diminutive refers to the smaller ensemble and the “lighter tone” of the content and the music), a collection of Latin motets for up to eight voices, and instrumental works, some of which are heard in a representative cross section on this CD. All of the pieces heard here are from the Sesto libro de madrigali de cinque voci, which was printed in Venice in 1613, a year prior to De Macque’s death. The collection covers a broad spectrum of verbal and musical registers. The texts set to music draw on Arcadian mythological topoi and also treat moralising and religious themes. Carefree delight and the vivifying power of nature as well as lover’s grief, despair, and sorrow – De Macque expresses all these feelings, situations, and impressions in his pieces. This madrigals may also be said to exhibit a considerable thematic and stylistic variety. His music for keyboard instruments also occupies an important place in music history and in particular significantly influenced the development of the seventeenth-century Neapolitan school.

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