Monteverdi - Erinnerungen

Description

In the 1600s, no other composer exerted such a diverse and lasting influence on the history of composition as Claudio Monteverdi. His wealth of musical ideas such as the ostinato bass or the lamento bass with its four descending notes has long been a source of inspiration. Capella de la Torre’s new album “Monteverdi : Memories” highlights Monteverdi’s artistic development in his works. Based on Monteverdi’s own carefully arranged publications such as the “VIII secular. MadrigalBook” (1638) and the sacred “Selva morale et spirituale” (1641), which he published at the end of his life, Capella de la Torre highlights his musical ideas from his twenty years as a court musician in Mantua to his nearly thirty years of church service in Venice. Works for a large ensemble such as “Beatus Vir” and “Confitebor tibi Domine” are heard in combination with pieces for smaller ensembles such as “Zefiro Torna”, “Ballo de ingrat” e and “Tempo la Cetra”. Throughout the program, the distinctive figures of Monteverdi’s “walking bass” have resurfaced in 20th-century jazz, blues and pop. Thus, Capella de la Torre explores Monteverdi’s life’s work, with its different dates of origin and styles.