Rore: Vieni dolce Himineo & Other Madrigals La Compagnia del Madrigale

• Cipriano de Rore (1515 - 1565): Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5:
• 1 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5: No. 2, Da le belle contrade 03:45
• Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali:
• 2 Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali: No. 16, Candido e vago fiore 02:37
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5:
• 3 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5: No. 1, Mentre lumi maggior 03:59
• Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2:
• 4 Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2: No. 1, Un'altra volta la Germania strida 03:48
• Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali:
• 5 Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali: No. 15, Poi che mi invita amore 04:55
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5:
• 6 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5: No. 10, Non è lasso martire 03:31
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4:
• 7 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 3, Alcun non può saper 02:29
• 8 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 24, Se ben il duol 04:27
• Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali:
• 9 Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali: No. 6, Alma Susanna 03:34
• Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2:
• 10 Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2: No. 5, O sonno 03:58
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4:
• 11 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 12, Di virtù di costumi 04:02
• Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali:
• 12 Le vive fiamme de' vaghi e dilettevoli madrigali: No. 11, Tra più beati e più sublimi cori 04:37
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5:
• 13 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 5: No. 13, Convien ch'ovunque 02:29
• Chansons à 4 et 5 parties:
• 14 Chansons à 4 et 5 parties: No. 24, Vieni dolce Imeneo 03:52
• Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2:
• 15 Madrigali à 4 voci, Libro 2: No. 9, Mia benigna fortuna 03:36
• Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4:
• 16 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 6, Volgi'l tuo corso 03:21
• 17 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 7, Come la notte 02:48
• 18 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 26, L'alto signor 04:11
• 19 Madrigali à 5 voci, Libro 4: No. 2, O morte, eterno fin 03:15
• Total Runtime 01:09:14

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With ‘Vieni, dolce Imeneo’, La Compagnia del Madrigale make another important stop on their compelling journey across the territory of Italian secular song with a disc devoted to one of the most significant, yet these days somewhat bypassed, composers: Cipriano de Rore.

De Rore was a Fleming who enjoyed great success notably in the Italian courts of Ferrara and Parma - but with a prestige which extended up and across Europe.

He composed in many genres but it is the secular madrigal - recorded here - where his skill was most valued, for example in creating extended and expressive melodic lines coupled with innovatory preechoes of the seconda pratica so triumphantly expressed - albeit amidst great criticism - by Claudio Monteverdi.

Glossa recordings of madrigals by Marenzio, Gesualdo and Monteverdi have already demonstrated musical pleasures, such as an uncommon vocal blend and delicacy and a meticulous dynamic control exhibited by the richly-experienced members of La Compagnia del Madrigale. Those delights are also to be experienced with these 19 madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, composed late in his career.

With texts by Petrarch, Ariosto and assorted court poets for these madrigals, essay writer Marco Bizzarini highlights one of the principal characteristic features of de Rore’s mastery when he points to the disc’s title track, ‘Vieni, dolce Imeneo’: the ideal union between poetry and music.

Dario Previato, bass
Paola Cialdella, alto
Giulia Beatini, alto
Massimo Lombardi, tenor
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Daniele Carnovich, bass
Efix Puleo, vielle
Svetlana Fomina, viola da bracchio
Sabina Colonna Preti, viola da gamba
Rossana Bertini, soprano
Giuseppe Maletto, tenor
Francesca Cassinari, soprano
Elena Carzaniga, alto

La Compagnia del Madrigale
Founded only recently, La Compagnia del Madrigale can already be considered as the pre-eminent madrigal ensemble on today’s international early music scene. The choice of the group’s name was inspired by the long-standing friendship and shared experiences of its singers from across two decades of performing together throughout the world. The founding members of the ensemble, Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto and Daniele Carnovich, while cultivating prestigious individual careers, have worked side by side for over 20 years, and their collective understanding as madrigalists has played a fundamental role in bringing an undisputed high level of artistry to groups such as Concerto Italiano and La Venexiana.

Cantica Symphonia
For over a decade Cantica Symphonia has dedicated itself to the recovery and performance of medieval and renaissance polyphony. Founded in 1995 by Giuseppe Maletto and Svetlana Fomina, the group is now one of the most highly regarded interpreters in its field. Cantica Symphonia’s unique style, fruit of intensive analysis of original sources, is characterized by an ability to bring out the structural and expressive richness of its repertoire. The group’s approach is one of particular care and attention to the interaction between voices and instruments, consolidating the collective experience of its members who individually collaborate with the most highly affirmed groups of today’s international Early Music scene. The fulcrum of the group’s activity has always been the music of Guillaume Dufay, the first great musician of the “modern” era whose works enlightened his times and guided western music through the travailed passage from medieval to renaissance.

Since 2005 Cantica Symphonia has been recording exclusively for Glossa and has released a series of three CDs dedicated to the music of Dufay: two volumes of motets (Quadrivium and Supremum est mortalibus bonum) and a companion disc of chansons (Tempio dell’Onore e delle Vertù). All have received strong critical acclaim.

The ensemble’s concert performances have been met with the same warm consensus as its recording projects. Cantica Symphonia has concertized throughout Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Estonia, and Slovenia and appears regularly in prestigious festivals: Rencontres de Musique Médiévale du Thoronet, the Festival van Vlaanderen in Brugge and Antwerp, the Tage Alter Musik in Regensburg, Concerts de St. Germain in Geneva, Settembre Musica and Unione Musicale in Torino.

Composers Filippo Del Corno, Carlo Galante and Yakov Gubanov have written music expressly for Cantica Symphonia. Prior to preparing a new large-scale project Cantica Symphonia have recorded an intimate, voices-only selection of motets and laude inspired by the Virgin Mary entitled Stella del nostro mar.

Giuseppe Maletto
engages in an intense activity as a professional singer, dedicating himself principally to medieval and renaissance polyphony and to the music of Claudio Monteverdi. La Venexiana, La Petite Bande, Hespèrion XXI, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Concerto Italiano, and Mala Punica are only a few of the prestigious groups with which he collaborates, participating in numerous concert tours in Europe, the United States, Israel, Japan, and Argentina. He has recorded over 40 CDs, several of which have received important awards, such as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Prix Cecilia, Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the Premio Cini and the Gramophone Award.

In addition to Cantica Symphonia’s specialization in medieval and renaissance repertoire Maletto has also led performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and the Missa In illo tempore, Carissimi’s Jephté, Odes and Anthems by Purcell, and several of Bach’s Cantatas. He has taught courses at the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo (Italy), at the Corso Internazionale di Musica Antica in Polizzi Generosa (Italy), and has held a seminar on the interpretation of the music of Monteverdi at the Novosibirsk Conservatory (Russia).

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