Frescobaldi - Complete Edition Vol.6: Madrigals
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 93793
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 14th December 2009
Contents
Artists
Modo AntiquoConductor
Bettina HoffmannAbout
These madrigals were Frescobaldi's first published music, and therefore evidently music of which he felt justifiably proud. Their language is doubtless shaped by his education and service in the northern Italian cities of Ferrara and Mantua which, thanks to the patronage of families such as the famous Gonzagas, was a cosmopolitan hotbed of artistic and creative endeavour. Frescobaldi met and became friends with Peter Philips, the noted English composer of madrigals who had settled in the Netherlands, and Philips's delicacy of imagination can be heard in this collection.
The nineteen madrigals with which Frescobaldi introduced himself have an admirable clarity of formal design that gives each line its due weight in terms of duration and emotion, and a transparent counterpoint that favours delicacy over density as a stylistic means, homophonic and polyphonic sections being cleverly alternated. It is pleasing to see the respect that Frescobaldi pays to the texts: the words are set to graceful melodic phrases, and never obscured by excessive counterpoint, but interpreted literally with immediate attention to meaning.
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