M Rossi - Madrigali al tavolino: Multitonal Madrigals
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Label: Glossa
Cat No: GCD922522
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 11th June 2021
Contents
Works
Improvisations (4)Alma afflitta
Come sian dolorose
Con che suavita
Credete voi
Cura gelata e ria
Langue al vostro languir
Occhi un tempo mia vita
O donna troppo cruda
Ohime, se tanto amate
O miseria d'amante
O prodighi di fiamme
Or che la notte
Pallida gelosia
Per non mir dir
Voi volete
Artists
Ensemble Domus ArtisConductor
Johannes KellerWorks
Improvisations (4)Alma afflitta
Come sian dolorose
Con che suavita
Credete voi
Cura gelata e ria
Langue al vostro languir
Occhi un tempo mia vita
O donna troppo cruda
Ohime, se tanto amate
O miseria d'amante
O prodighi di fiamme
Or che la notte
Pallida gelosia
Per non mir dir
Voi volete
Artists
Ensemble Domus ArtisConductor
Johannes KellerAbout
These pieces are unusual in a number of ways: on the one hand, for music from the second quarter of the seventeenth century, they seem “conservative”, composed in five parts with two tenor voices instead of two sopranos. On the other hand, they appear to be avant-garde in their vertiginous harmony (chromaticism and modulations), which lead them, in spite of the traditional counterpoint, far beyond the borders of harmonic tonality. And they are strikingly “vieltonig”, as this was especially cultivated in Rome of those years.
The term “vieltonig” can perhaps be translated as “multitonal” in the literal sense of using many pitches and refers to a conscious use of more than twelve notated pitches per octave.
This recording tries to reproduce the intimate setting in which such madrigals were sung in their time, with the singers sitting around a big table, studying, discussing and singing. Thus the term madrigali al tavolino that was chosen to title the album.
A crucial aspect of this project is the use of an arciorgano, which has 36 pitches per octave (instead of the usual 12) and provides the background to the performance of these highly sophisticated vocal pieces. The specialist Johannes Keller leads the Ensemble Domus Artis, a group especially created for the study and interpretation of madrigals intended originally to be performed in tavolino conditions.
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