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Music : Styles : Classical : Featured Composers, A-Z : ( M ) : Marenzio, Luca
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The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music includes professional recordings (many brand new) of all works in the anthology on two six-CD sets, of which this is volume 1.
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"A thrilling dramatic choral tour de force ... invigorating." -- The TimesA new program from The Sixteen features music written for the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican during the Renaissance. Includes several world premiere recordings. The Sixteen is one of the jewels in the musical crown of Britain, and enjoys a worldwide reputation. Founded in 1977 by its director, Harry Christophers, its eighty+ CDs have received nearly every major prize of the recording industry, including the prestigious Gramophone Award for Early Music. The Sixteen's special reputation for early English polyphony, masterpieces of the Renaissance, and a diversity of twentieth century music is founded on a naturalness of performance, a revealing clarity and beauty of sound, precision, and a dramatic intensity of delivery.
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ClassicsToday 10/10! Music that inspired both the old Italian madrigal and the Buenos Aires tango.
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"In this 400th anniversary year of the first great opera (Monteverdi's Orfeo), it's good to be reminded whence that art sprang...These live performances are exuberant, clean, and stylish, and convey well the flavour of an opulent but refined celebration in sound. Presentation is admirably thorough, and a bonus CD contains helpful interviews with Sempé." -- The Sunday TimesRarely recorded, this Pellegrina by Skip Sempé is the only version on the market! Includes a bonus CD with interviews of Skip Sempé.
First CD of the Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra for Paradizo, with the famous Collegium Vocale Gent.
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The Medici of Florence were renowned for (among other things) the magnificent palazzos and churches they built and the magnificent musical-dramatic entertainments they staged, often known as stravaganze (extravaganzas). The music on this album (first performed as part of the 1589 wedding celebrations for Ferdinando de' Medici) was the apotheosis of the stravaganza, using the most famous--and most expensive--composers, singers, and instrumentalists in Italy with a huge chorus and orchestra and newfangled stage machinery. Among the composers were Luca Marenzio, the greatest madrigalist of the day, and Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini, who went on to write the very first operas; the music alternates between pieces in madrigal style (often for two groups of singers in dialogue) and florid, virtuoso showpieces for soloists; there are big complements of lutes and other chord instruments for color, weight, and variety. Re-creating all this is an enormous undertaking, and Paul van Nevel deserves congratulations for bringing it off so successfully (as does Sony for paying for it). The result isn't great music-drama like Monteverdi's Orfeo; it was never intended to be anything but the enjoyable, fabulous spectacle it is. --Matthew Westphal
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