6ème livre de madrigaux 1611

Description

Here is an ideal and moving version that allows you to feel the emotion that overwhelmed Carlo Gesualdo at the time of composing the Sixth Book of Madrigals, recently recorded by La Compagnia del Madrigale for Glossa. Some of the best singers in this repertoire - Giuseppe Maletto, Daniele Carnovich, or Rossana Bertini, who have refined their mastery over more than 20 years by collaborating with ensembles like La Venexiana or Concerto Italiano - now take on the human charge, richness, warmth, and pictorial beauty of one of the most complex cycles in the history of music. This project marks the brilliant arrival of this ensemble in a record label for which the exploration of the Italian madrigal is one of its cornerstones. A fascinating text by Marco Bizzarini reevaluates the essence of Gesualdo's madrigal, prince of Venosa, based on the reactions provoked by his music during the composer's lifetime. Bizzarini highlights the extraordinary beauty, intense expression of affetti, and contrapuntal mastery of these "23 caviar canapés" (according to Stravinsky). This new reading - with its wide range of nuances - offered by La Compagnia del Madrigale masterfully transcends all the dissonances and difficulties contained in these madrigals and reveals their intense expressiveness. Thanks to its attractive design, meeting the standards of the label, this new disc of Gesualdo's Sixth Book combines the pleasures of sight, reading, and listening...