The Time of Monteverdi

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8 CD set with a hardback book
RICERCAR RIC107 [8 CDs: ca 620 mins]
 
This is the second volume in Ricercar’s History of Early Music series and runs to ten and half hours of music. It follows on from Music in Europe at the time of the Renaissance (RIC 106), with this 8 CD compilation covering the period from the late 1500s to late 1600s taking in the transition to the Baroque era. It deals with aspects of both sacred and secular music and how they developed and how they were influenced by the birth of various new musical forms including opera, oratorio and sonata. This is a wide-ranging survey of the composers featured, some of whom, I must confess, are new to me. The era is illustrated with performances by some of the most acclaimed ensembles and soloists. The set also features a truly wonderful book by Jérôme Lejeune, which discusses the Baroque aesthetic and all aspects of the music featured here.

The set is attractively packaged; it is presented in a gatefold sleeve (202 x 146 x 60mm) with the book in the front slot and the wallet containing the discs in the rear. Before we address the music we must discuss the book, as it is this which for me makes this set as valuable as it is. Jérôme Lejeune has not just written notes to accompany the music, rather the music has been chosen to accompany the book. It contains what can best be described as a thesis in which Lejeune sets out his argument, fairly well too, for a new understanding of the concept of ‘The Baroque’. Only then does he go on to discuss aspects of the music of the period. There he talks of composers without overtly referring to some of the works presented on the accompanying discs. He has divided the book into sections Secular Vocal Music and the Birth of Opera. He examines the development of the cantata, as well as that of opera, with Monteverdi’s ‘Orfeo’ being singled out as “the apotheosis of the Renaissance”. This is followed by sections on Sacred Music, Instrumental Music: Canzoni, Sonate and Balli and Instrumental Music for Polyphonic Instruments. This very full survey goes beyond the musical examples presented here. It has however presented a problem for me in that I am now seeking further recordings to illustrate the words presented in this book.

The music is laid out following the same sections as the book, with discs 1-4 dealing with secular music, discs 5 and 6 (tr. 1-9) the sacred music, with the remainder dedicated to chamber and instrumental music. Although the set is entitled “The Time Of Monteverdi”, this is hardly a set dedicated to him and his circle. Indeed, of the 134 tracks, only 23 are by the great man, with the others presenting the wide diversity of the music of the period. Some pieces are by composers whose names I only know from footnotes of musical history. On this reckoning they deserve greater recognition. The set has been well sourced with the with most recordings coming from Ricercar and other Outhere labels. There are also recordings from Virgin, Harmonia Mundi, DHM, Erato and MDG. However the choice of Glossa’s set of the Complete Madrigals Books (Glossa 920929) to illustrate the works of Monteverdi was a master-stroke as I have always felt that this set gives great insight into his madrigals. All the works are presented in excellent recordings, with some becoming new favourites of mine. They have all been captured in excellent sound. On this evidence I will be looking at investing in the previous volume of this series.

Stuart Sillitoe



Contents List

CD 1

SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC AND THE BIRTH OF OPERA
1. Non sa che sia dolore Luzzascho Luzzaschi 2’34
2. O dolcezze amarissime Ludovico Agostini 3’33
DOULCE MEMOIRE (dir. Denis Raisin Dadre)
Véronique Bourin, Axelle Bernage, Christel Boiron: sopranos
Pascale Boquet: lute / Lucas Guimaraes Peres: lirone
Angélique Mauillon: harp/ Elisabeth Geiger: harpsichord
3. Udite, selve, mie dolce parole Anonymous 6’31
LE MIROIR DE MUSIQUE
Giovanni Cantarini: tenor / Baptiste Romain: lira da braccio
La Pellegrina
4. Dalle più alte sfere Emilio de Cavalieri 4’46
5. O fortunato giorno a 7 cori Christofano Malvezzi 2’29
6. Dunque fra torbide onde Jacopo Peri 5’00
7. O che nuovo miracolo Emilio de Cavalieri 5’18
TAVERNER CONSORT, CHOIR & PLAYERS ( dir. Andrew Parrott)
Emma Kirkby: soprano (4) /
Nigel Rogers, Andrew King, Rogers Covey-Crump: tenors (6)
L’Euridice Giulio Caccini
8. Atto I, scena 2: Per quel vago boschetto (Dafne, Arcetro) 3’39
9. Attto I, scena 2: Cruda morte (Ninfa del coro / Coro) 6’11
10. Atto II, scena 4: Funeste piaggie (Orfeo) 3’43
11. Atto III, scena 5: Gioite al canto mio 8’00
(Orfeo, Euridice, Arcetro, Aminta, Dafne, Coro)
SCHERZI MUSICALI (dir. Nicolas Achten)
Nicolas Achten: baritone & theorbo (Orfeo)
Céline Vieslet: soprano (Euridice) / Magid El-Bushra: countertenor
(Dafne) / Marie de Roy: soprano (Ninfa) / Reinoud van Mechelen: tenor
(Arcetro) / Sarah Ridy: harp / Eriko Semba: lirone / Simon Linné: theorbo
guitar / Francesco Corti: harpsichord, organ
L’Orfeo Claudio Monteverdi
12. Toccata 1’09
Gilles Rapin, Joël Lahens, Serge Tizac, François Février, Hervé Defrance:
mute natural trumpets
13. Possente spirto Claudio Monteverdi 10’08
SCHERZI MUSICALI (dir. Nicolas Achten)
Nicolas Achten: baritone (Orfeo) & harp / Lambert Colson & Adrien Mabire:
cornets / Varoujan Doneyan & Patrizio Germone: violins / Justin Glaie, Eriko
Semba: viols / Benoît Vanden Bemden: violone / Korneel Bernolet: organ
Solmund Nystabbak: theorbo
14. Ch’ami la vita mia Claudio Monteverdi 2’06
15. Non si levava ancor l’alba novella (prima parte) Claudio Monteverdi 4’52
16. E dica l’una sospirando allora (secunda parte) 4’58
17. Sfogava con le stelle Claudio Monteverdi 3’35
LA VENEXIANA
Roberta Mamelli, Rossana Bertini, Nadia Ragni: sopranos
Claudio Cavina: countertenor / Raffaele Giordani, Giuseppe Maletto,
Sandro Naglia: tenors / Daniele Carnovich, Matteo Bellotto: basses

Variously from ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES ZZT07100, Le concert secret des dames de Ferrare; VIRGIN 6026842 6,Una «stravaganzza» dei Medici; 13: © DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 888430 78722, Il Pianto d’Orfeo; GLOSSA 920929, Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigals books

CD 2

1. Ahi, come a un vago sol cortese giro Claudio Monteverdi 4’52
2. T’amo, mia vita! Claudio Monteverdi 3’01
LA VENEXIANA
Roberta Mamelli & Nadia Ragni: sopranos / Claudio Cavina: countertenor
Raffaele Giordani & Giuseppe Maletto: tenors / Daniele Carnovich: bass
3. Damigella tutta bella Claudio Monteverdi 2’38
CONCERTO SOAVE ( Jean-Marc Aymes: dir. & harpsichord)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano / Stephan MacLeod: bass
Amandine Beyer & Alba Roca: violins / Gaetano Nasillo: violoncello
Monica Pustilnik: guitar / Mara Galassi: harp
4. Amarilli mia bella Giulio Caccini 3’04
Anna Reinhold: mezzo-soprano / Thomas Dunford: archlute
5. Tu ch’ai le penne, Amore Giulio Caccini 4’29
Marco Horvat: baritone & theorbo / Eric Bellocq: guitar
6. In qual parte del ciel Jacopo Peri 3’42
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano / Christina Pluhar: harp
Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord / Imke David: bass viol
7. Occhi, fonti del core, occhi piangete Jacopo Peri 3’20
Ellen Hargis: soprano / Hille Perl: lirone
Paul O’Dette: chitarrone / Andrew Lawrence-King: harp
8. Per la più vaga e bella Francesca Caccini 2’06
(La liberazzione di Rugiero d’all Isola d’Alcina)
LA VILLANELLA BASEL
Heike Pichler-Trosits: soprano / Claudia Nauheim: recorder
Petra Burmann: chitarrone / Mechtild Winter: organ
9. Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse Sigismondo d’India 3’09
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord / Imke David: lirone
10. Langue al vostro languir Sigismondo d’India 4’36
CONCERTO VOCALE
Judith Nelson: soprano / René Jacobs: countertenor / Wieland Kuijken: bass viol
William Christie: organ / Konrad Junghänel: theorbo
11. A qualcunque animale Stefano Landi 3’42
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Stephan Van Dyck: tenor / Christina Pluhar: guitar
12. Lamento d’Arianna Claudio Monteverdi 8’37
Roberta Invernizzi: soprano
ACCADEMIA STRUMENTALE ITALIANA (dir. & bass viol: Alberto Rasi)
Luca Guglielmi: organ & harpsichord / Béatrice Pornon: theorbo
Il Ballo delle Ingrate Claudio Monteverdi
13. Ballo 4’49
14.- Scena ultima: Ahi troppo è duro 4’34
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS (dir. William Christie)
Jill Feldman: soprano (Una delle Ingrate)
15. Dunque amate reliquie (Sestina) Claudio Monteverdi 4’02
CONCERTO ITALIANO (dir. & harpsichord:Rinaldo Alessandrini)
Rossana Bertina & Christina Miatello: sopranos / Claudio Cavina: countertenor
Sandro Naglia, Giuseppe Maletto: tenors / Daniele Carnovich: bass
Mara Galassi: harp
16. A Dio Florida bella Claudio Monteverdi 4’33
CONCERTO ITALIANO (dir. & harpsichord:Rinaldo Alessandrini)
Rossana Bertini: soprano / Bianca Simone: mezzo-soprano / Claudio Cavina:
countertenor / Sandro Naglia: tenor / Daniele Carnovich: bass
Mara Galassi: harp / Andrea Damiani: theorbo
17. Tempro la cetra Claudio Monteverdi 8’59
LA VENEXIANA (dir. Claudio Cavina)
Giuseppe Maletto: tenor
18. Sì dolce è’l tormento Claudio Monteverdi 3’50
Roberta Invernizzi: soprano
ACCADEMIA STRUMENTALE ITALIANA (dir. & treble viol: Alberto Rasi)
Claudio Pasetto: tenor viol / Daniele Cernuto: bass viol / Cristiano Condatin:
violone /Béatrice Pornon: chitarrone / Luca Guglielmi : organ
17: © GLOSSA 92092, Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigals books
18: © STRADIVARIUS, STR 11015, A Voce sola, con sinfonie

Variously from GLOSSA 920929, Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigals books; HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901855,Claudio Monteverdi, Scherzi Musicali; ALPHA 195, Labirinto d’Amore; ALPHA 043, Il Giardino di Giulio Caccini; HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907234, Il Zarzzerino; RAMÉE RAM 0401, O dulcis amor; HARMONIA MUNDI, HMC 1901011; STRADIVARIUS, STR 11015, A Voce sola, con sinfonie; HARMONIA MUNDI, HMC 901108; ARCANA A 66, Monteverdi, Il sesto Libro de Madrigali

CD 3

1. Zefiro torna Claudio Monteverdi 5’14
LA VENEXIANA (dir. Claudio Cavina)
Giuseppe Maletto & Raffaele Giordani: tenors
2. Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (extract) Claudio Monteverdi 8’20
3. Lamento della Ninfa Claudio Monteverdi 6’01
LE POÈME HARMONIQUE (dir. & theorbo Vincent Dumestre)
Isabelle Druet: soprano (Clorinda) / Marc Mauillon: baritone (Testo)
Jan Van Elsacker: tenor (Trancredi) / Claire Lefilliâtre: soprano (Ninfa)
Jan Van Elsacker & Serge Goubioud: tenors / Benoît Arnould: bass
Lorenzo Collito & Lisa Fergusson: violins / Isabelle Saint Yves: viol
Hervé Douchy: bass violin / Françoise Enock: violone / Nanja Breedijk: harp
Massimo Moscardo: archlute / Frédéric Rivoal: harpsichord
4. Hor che’l ciel e la terra Claudio Monteverdi 8’20
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr & Salomé Haller: sopranos / Pascal Bertin: countertenor
Stephan Van Dyck & Jan Van Elsacker: tenors / Stephan McLeod: bass / Gebhard
David: cornet / Imke David: bass viol / Christina Pluhar: theorbo / Jean-Marc
Aymes: harpsichord
5. M’amo tanto costei Benedetto Ferrari 2’50
René Jacobs: countertenor / Konrad Junghänel: theorbo
6. Che si puo fare Barbara Strozzi 12’10
CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA (dir. Leonardo García Alarcón)
Mariana Flores: soprano
Girolamo Bottiglieri & Stéphanie de Failly: violins / Andrea De Carlo,
Margaux Blanchard, François Joubert-Caillet: viols / Marina Bonnetti: harp
Quito Gato: theorbo / Thomas Dunford: archlute
7. Grotte ombrose Biagio Marini 5’15
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Maria Christina Kiehr: soprano / Gebhard David & Yoshimichi Yamada:
cornets / Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
8. O vulnera doloris Giacomo Carissimi 4’50
Max Van Egmond: bass / Konrad Junghänel: theorbo
9. Salutate il nuovo Aprile Marco Marazzoli 7’54
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM (dir. & bass viol, Andrea De Carlo)
Soledad De La Rosa: soprano / Margaux Blanchard & François Joubert Caillet: treble
viol /Amélie Chemin: tenor viol / Sarah Van Oudenhove: bass viol / Monica
Pustilnik: archlute / Marina Bonetti: harp / Anna Fontana: organ
10. Oh se poteste mai, luci adorate Domenico Mazzocchi 5’19
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM (dir. Andrea De Carlo)
Margaux Blanchard & François Joubert Caillet: treble viol /Amélie Chemin &
Sarah Van Oudenhove: bass viols / Guy Penson: organ
Bernard Zonderman: theorbo
VOX LUMINIS
Zuzsi Toth, Sara Jäggi: sopranos / Paulin Bündgen: countertenor
Robert Buckland: tenor / Lionel Meunier: bass
11. Vanne, o carta amorosa Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’30
12. Se l’aura spira Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’42
13. Cosi mi disprezzate (Aria di Passacaglia) Girolamo Frescobaldi 5’11
CLEMATIS (dir. & harpishcord: Leonardo García Alarcón)
Mariana Flores: soprano / Stéphanie de Failly: violin
Andrea De Carlo: bass viol / Marie Bournisien: harp
Quito Gato: theorbo

Variously from GLOSSA 920929, Monteverdi, The Complete Madrigal books; ALPHA 172, Monteverdi & Marazzoli, Combattimenti!; HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901183, Amarilli mia bella; AMBRONAY, AMY 020, Barbara Strozzi, Virtuosissima comprositrice; ARCANA A 370, Occhi belli, occhi neri

CD 4

1. Orfeo dolente: Terzo intemedio Domenico Belli 6’51
LE POEME HARMONIQUE (dir. & theorbo: Vincent Dumestre)
Arnaud Marzorati: basso (Orfeo) / Isabelle Druet: soprano (Calliope)
Catherine Padaut, Camille Poul, Aurore Bucher, Jan Van Elsacker (pastori)
Eva Godart: cornet / Johannes Frisch: violin / Isabelle Saint-Yves & Lucas
Guimaraes: bass viols / Martin Bauer: violone / Florian Carré: harpsichord &
organ / Massimo Moscardo: archlute
La Morte d’Orfeo Stefano Landi
2. Atto IV, scena 2: Coro delle Menadi infuriate, Furore 1’37
3. Atto IV, scena 3: Caliope 2’12
4. Atto V, scena 1: Orfeo, Caronte 9’59
5. Atto V, scena 3: Coro de Dei 3’08
AKADÊMIA (dir. Françoise Lasserre)
Cyril Auvity: baritone (Orfeo) / Guillemette Laurens: mezzo-soprano
(Caliope) / Dominique Visse: baritone (Caronte)
La Catena d’Adone Domenico Mazzocchi
6. Atto V, scena 3: Venere, Adone, Amore, Falsirena 10’44
7. Atto V, scena 3: Venere, Amore, Adone 3’57
8. Atto V, scena 3: Tutto il coro 1’42
SCHERZI MUSICALI (dir. Nicolas Achten)
Luciana Mancini: mezzo-soprano (Falsirena) / Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor
(Adone) / Catherine Lybaert : soprano (Amore) / Merel Elishevah Kriegsman:
soprano (Venere)
Il Sant’Alessio Stefano Landi
9. Atto II, scena 9 : Quel che sospirano (La Religione) 3’25
10. Atto II, scena 10 : Rasserenianmo il cor con lieti aupici (Eufemiano, Adrasto, 2’56
Nuntio) /
11. Il ciel pietoso (Coro) 2’04
LES ARTS FLORISSANTS (dir. William Christie)
Maryseult Wieczorek: soprano (La Religione) / Nicolas Rivenq: bass
(Eufemiano) / Christopher Josey: tenor (Adrasto)
Armand Gavriilidès: alto (Nuntio)
Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo Francesco Cavalli
12. Atto II: Sinfonia a 5 1’41
La Statira Francesco Cavalli
13. Atto II, scena 9: Menfi, mia patria (Ermosilla) 3’28
Elena Francesco Cavalli
14. Atto II, Scena 14: Amazone non son (Menelao, Elena) 2’53
Il Giasone Francesco Cavalli
15. Atto II, Scena 1: Lassa, che far degg’io (Isifile) 6’44
Hipermestra Francesco Cavalli
16. Atto III, Scena 14: Quest’è un gran caso (Vafrino) 3’05
Il Giasone Francesco Cavalli
17. Atto I, Scena 15: Dell’antro magico (Medea) 5’13
Eliogabalo Francesco Cavalli
18. Atto III, Scena 15: Pur ti stringo (Alessandro, Gemmira, Eritrea, Giuliano) 2’27
CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA (dir., organ & harpsichord:Leonardo García Alarcón)
Mariana Flores: soprano (11, 12, 13, 14, 16) / Anna Reinhold: soprano (12, 15,
16) / Marine Chaboux: soprano (16) / Igor Chernov: countertenor (16)
Quito Gato: theorbo / Thomas Dunford & Monica Pustilnik: archlute
Marie Bournisien: harp / François Joubert-Caillet: bass viol
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly & Lathika Vithanage: violins / Jérôme Lejeune: tenor viol
Sarah Van Oudenhove: violone

Variously from ALPHA 120; ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES, ZZT 070402, Stefano Landi, La morte d’Orfeo; ALPHA 184, Domenico Mazzocchi, La Catena d’Adone; ERATO 0630-14304, Stefano Landi, Il Sant’Alessio

CD 5

SACRED MUSIC
1. In ecclesiis a 14 Giovanni Gabrieli 7’21
2. Dulcis Jesu patris imago (Sonata con voce a 20) Giovanni Gabrieli 6’50
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Rosa Dominguez: soprano (1) / Hans Jörg Mammel: tenor (1)
Eric Mentzel: countertenor (2) / Stephan Van Dyck: tenor (2)
3. O Domine Jesu Christe Lodovico da Viadana 1’55
Henri Ledroit: countertenor
Bernard Foccroulle: organ / Philippe Pierlot: bass viol
4. Missa In illo tempore: Agnus dei Claudio Monteverdi 5’16
ODHECATON (dir. Paolo Da Col)
Liuwe Tamminga: organ (Antegnati, Mantova, Basilica di Santa Barbara)
5. Salve Regina a tre voci Claudio Monteverdi 3’58
ODHECATON (dir. Paolo Da Col)
Vincenzo Di Donato: tenor / Mauro Borgioni: baritone
Matteo Bellotto: bass / Marta Graziolino: harp / Michele Pasotti: theorbo
Massimo Sartori: bass viol
6. Gloria a 7 voci concertato Claudio Monteverdi 11’43
AKADÊMIA (dir. Françoise Lasserre)
Caroline Pelon & Béatrice Mayo Felip: sopranos / Stephan Van Dyck, Cyril
Auvity: tenors / Philippe Roche, François Fauché: basses
José-Manuel Navarro & Cosimo Stawiarski: violins
7. Laudate Dominum a voce sola Claudio Monteverdi 4’01
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
John Elwes: tenor / Mathias Spaeter: archlute / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
Jean-Marc Aymes: organ / Arno Jochem: violone
8. Missa sopra la Monica: Gloria Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’26
CAPELLA SANCTI MICHAELIS (dir. Erik Van Nevel)
9. O vos omnes Carlo Gesualdo de Venosa 2’46
ODHECATON (dir. Paolo Da Col)
10. Messa di defonti a quattro voci: Introitus Mario Capuana 3’57
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR (dir. Leonardo García Alarcón)
11. Missa Sciolto havean dall’alte sponde: Giacomo Carissimi 4’19
Agnus Dei
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR (dir. Jean Tubéry)
12. O quam tu pulchra es Alessandro Grandi 3’09
Henri Ledroit: countertenor
Bernard Foccroulle: harpsichord / Philippe Pierlot: bass viol
13. Lagrime amare Domenico Mazzocchi 4’55
14. Mulier cur ploras hic Adriano Banchieri 2’23
15. Stabat Mater Giovanni Felice Sances 12’28
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano (13, 14, 15) / Ulrich Messthaler: baritone (14)
Mathias Spaeter: archlute (13, 14, 15) / Christina Pluhar: harp (14, 15)
Jean-Marc Aymes: organ (14, 15) / Paulina Van Laarhoven: lirone (13, 15)
Arno Jochem: bass viol (13) & violone (15)

From ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES ZZT 031101, Monteverdi, Selva Morale

CD 6

1. Hor che tempo di dormire Tarquinio Merula 8’46
2. Alma redemptoris mater Maurizio Cazzati 4’16
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano (1, 2) / Gebhard David: cornet (2) / Jérémie
Papasergio: bassoon (2) / Mathias Spaeter: archlute (2)
Jean-Marc Aymes: organ (2) / Christina Pluhar: harp (1, 2)
Gebhard David: bass viol (1)
3. Factum est praelium magnum Maurizio Cazzati 4’34
Max Van Egmond: bass / Bernard Foccroulle: organ
Konrad Junghänel: theorbo / Philippe Pierlot: bass viol
4. Ave maris stella Giovanni Felice Sances 3’17
SCHERZI MUSICALI (dir. & harpsichord Nicolas Achten)
Céline Vieslet & Marie de Roy: sopranos / Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor
Olivier Berten: baritone / Justin Glorieux & Daniel Boothe: violins
Lambert Colson: cornet / Simon Linné: theorbo / Romina Lischka: bass viol
Marc Meisel: organ
5 Miserere a tre voci Biagio Marini 12’32
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Maria Cristina Kiehr: soprano / John Elwes: tenor / Ulrich Messthaler:
baritone / Jean-Marc Aymes: organ / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
Matthias Spaeter: chitarrone / Paulina Van Laarhoven: lirone
La Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo Emilio de Cavalieri 12’29
6. Atto II, scena 7 & 8
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR
LA FENICE (dir. Jean Tubéry)
Stephan McLeod: bass (Il Mondo) /Hervé Lamy : tenor (Il Corpo)
Anne Cambier: soprano (L’Anima) / Carlos Mena: countertenor (L’Angelo Custode)
Caroline Weynants : soprano (La vita mondana)
7. Judicium Salomonis (begining) Giacomo Carissimi 6’14
HASSLER-CONSORT (dir. & organ Franz Raml)
Anna Katharina Böhme: soprano (Mulier I) / Birgit Schönberger: soprano
(Mulier II) / Markus Schickora: tenor (Historicus) / Florian Mehltretter:
baritone (Salomo) / Mimi Mitchell & Heidi Erbich: violins
Ann Fahrni: violone / Matthias Spaeter: chitarrone
Jephte Giacomo Carissimi
8. Abbit ergo in montes 4’23
9. Plorate filii Israel 7’53
Los Músicos de su Alteza (dir. & harpsichord: Luis Antonio González),
Olalla Alemán (Filia), Eugenia Enguita, Pilar Moral, Agnieszka Grzywacz & Cristina
Bayón: sopranos / Marta Iinfante: mezzosoprano / Gabriel Díaz: countertenor
Monserrat Bertal: contralto / José Pizarro ( Jephte) & Íñigo Casalí: tenor (historius)
João Fernandes, Jesús García Aréjula: bass / Pablo Prieto & Eduardo Fenoll: violins
Natan Paruzel: viola / Pedro Reula: cello / Ventura Rico: violone / RodneyPrada:
lirone / Chiara Granata: harp / Josep Maria Martí: chitarrone / Alfonso Sebastián:
organ
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC: CANZONI, SONATE & BALLI
10. Non gemme, non fin oro di Cipirano de Rore Girolamo Dalla Casa 3’42
François Joubert-Caillet: bass viol / Philippe Grisvard: harpsichord
11. Ancor che col partire di Cipriano de Rore Giovanni Battista Bovicelli 3’32
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly: violin / Quito Gato: theorbo
Marie Bournisien: harp / Lionel Desmeules: organ
12. Suzanne un giur di Orlando di Lasso Giovanni Bassano 3’44
Jean Tubéry: cornet / Jean-Marc Aymes: organ
13. Canzona decimasettima a 12 in tre cori Giovanni Gabrieli 3’40
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet Jean Tubéry)
Gebhard David & Frithjof Smith: cornets / Enrico Parizzi & Roberto Falcone:
violins / Sophie Watillon, Piet Strijkers& Liam Fennely: viols
Stephan Legée, Christiane Bopp, Frank Poitrineau & Simen Van Mechelen:
trombones / Jérémie Papasergio: bassoon / Jean-Marc Aymes & Jörg Andreas
Bötticher: organs / Matthias Spaeter: chitarrone
6: © Live recording, Bruxelles, Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, février 2001
RTBF - Musiq 3
7: © MDG 614 0753-2, Giacomo Carissimi, Oratorios and Motets
8-9: ALPHA 183, Mazzocchi - Carissimi, Il Tormento e l’Estasi

CD 7

1. Canzona ottava a 6 Biagio Marini 2’49
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet Jean Tubéry)
Gebhard David: cornet / Enrico Parizzi & Roberto Falcone: violins
Jean-Jacques Herbin, Serge Guillou, Ole Andersen & Franck Poitrineau:
trombones / Jörg Andreas Bötticher: organ / Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord
Christina Pluhar: theorbo
2. Canzona la Bernardina Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’26
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly: violin / Andrea De Carlo: bass viol /Quito Gato: theorbo
Marie Bournisien: harp /Leonardo García Alarcón: organ
3. Sonata sopra Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis Claudio Monteverdi 6’08
CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEA (dir. Leonardo García Alarcón)
CHŒUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR
Stéphanie de Failly & Naomi Burell: violins / Judith Pacquier & Gustavo Gargiulo:
cornets / Fabien Cherrier, Jean-Noël Gamet & Adrian France: trombones
4. Sonata in dialogo detta la Viena Salomone Rossi 3’32
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Enrico Parizzi: violin / Jean-Marc Aymes: organ / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
5. Sonata a tre sopra il Ballo del Gran Duca G. Battista Buonamente 6’17
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Gebhard David: cornet / Amandine Beyer & Hélène Houzel: violins
Jérémie Papasergio: bassoon / Jörg-Andreas Bötticher: harpsichord
Jean-Marc Aymes: organ / Matthias Spaeter: archlute
6. Sonata La Farina Carlo Farina 7’43
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly: violin /Andrea De Carlo: bass viol
Thomas Dunford: theorbo / Leonardo García Alarcón: organ
7. Fantasia basso solo per fagotto B. de Selma y Salaverde 3’16
Jérémie Papasergio: fagotto / Angélique Mauillon: harp
8. Sonata duodecima per due soprani e trombone Dario Castello 7’25
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Gebhard David: cornet / Jean-Jacques Herbin: trombone / Matthias Spaeter:
chitarrone / Jörg Andreas Bötticher: organ / Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord
9. Canzona sopra la Romanesca Girolamo Frescobaldi 2’51
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM (dir. & bass viol: Andrea De Carlo)
Margaux Blanchard & François Joubert Caillet: treble viol /Amélie Chemin:
tenor viol /Guy Penson: organ / Bernard Zonderman: theorbo
10. Passacaglio a quatro Biagio Marini 3’59
LA FENICE (dir. & mute cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Jean-Jacques Herbin, Serge Guillou & Franck Poitrineau: trombones / Christina
Pluhar: theorbo / Arno Jochem: violone / Jean-Marc Aymes: organ
11. Ciaconna Tarquinio Merula 2’56
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Enrico Parizzi: violin / Jörg Andreas Bötticher: organ
Jean-Marc Aymes: harpsichord / Christina Pluhar: theorbo
12. Sonata seconda a quattro Giovanni Legrenzi 4’38
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly & Juliette Roumailhac: violins / Lathika Vithanage: viola
François Joubert-Caillet: bass viol / Quito Gato: theorbo
Marie Bournisien: harp / Lionel Desmeules: harpischord
13. Sonata seconda La Lucimia Marco Ucellini 3’34
ENSEMBLE AURORA
Enrico Gatti: violin / Hendrike ter Brugge: cello
Mara Galassi: harp / Guido Morini: harpsichord
14. Sonata La Foscari Giovanni Legrenzi 3’47
CLEMATIS
Stéphanie de Failly: violin / Jérémie Papasergio: bassoon / Lionel Desmeules:
organ (Giuseppe Rubino (1767), Molfetta, Chiesa di San Bernardino)
15. Sonata a 3 Francesco Cavalli 5’58
LA FENICE (dir. & cornet: Jean Tubéry)
Enrico Parizzi : violin / Jörg Andreas Bötticher: organ
Christina Pluhar: theorbo
AMBRONAY, AMY041, Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Vergine
SYMPHONIA SY 90502, L’arte del violino in Italia tra XVII e XVIII secolo (I)
16. Balletto Terzo Biagio Marini 0’50
17. Corrente seconda 1’12
18. Zarabanda Terza 1’47
ROMANESCA
Andrew Manze & Caroline Balding: violins / Jan Schlapp: viola
David Watkin: cello / Nigel North: guitar / John Toll: harpsichord
Ballo quarto: G. Girolamo Kapsberger
19. Uscita 0’59
20. Ballo 2’49
21. Corrente 1’20
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM (dir. & bass viol: Andrea de Carlo)
Margaux Blanchard: treble viol / François Joubert-Caillet: tenor viol / Amélie
Chemin: bass viol / Bernard Zonderman: theorbo / Guy Penson: organ
Ballo della Serena: Lorenzo Allegri
22. Ballo 1’50
23. Corrente 1’32
LE POEME HARMONIQUE (dir. & theorbo: Vincent Dumestre)
Sophie Watillon & Friederike Heumann: treble viols / Silvia Abramowicz:
tenor viol / Kaori Uemura & Anne-Marie Lasla: bass viols / Françoise Enock:
violone / Massimo Moscardo: theorbo / Nanja Breedijck: harp
Joël Grare: percussions

Variously from HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 0907175, Biagio Marini, Curiose & Moderne
Inventioni; ALPHA 002, Domnico Belli, Il nuovo stile

CD 8

1. Entrada del Imperiale Girolamo Fantini 1 :56
TROMBE ANTICHE (dir. & trumpet: Igino Conforzi)
2. Prima Sonata di tromba ed organo Girolamo Fantini 1’44
Igino Conforzi: trumpet / Claudio Brizzi: organ
3. Da pacem a 6 Ascanio Trombetti 3’47
CONCERTO PALATINO
Bruce Dickey & Doron Scherwin: cornets
Charles Toet, Sue Addison, Harry Ries & Wim Becu: trombones
Instrumental Music for Polyphonic instruments
Missa della Domenica Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’54
4. Toccata avant la Missa della Domenica
Kyrie – Christe – Kyrie
Jean-Marc Aymes: organ (Tomaso Meirani, (1629/30), Brescia, Chiesa S. Maria
del Carmine) / Gianlucca Ferrarini: tenor
5. Recercar doppo il Credo Girolamo Frescobaldi 1’55
ENSEMBLE MARE NOSTRUM (dir. & bass viol: Andrea De Carlo)
Margaux Blanchard: treble viol / François Joubert-Caillet: tenor viol
Amélie Chemin: bass viol
6. Toccata terza da sonarsi alla levazione Girolamo Frescobaldi 8’51
Bernard Foccroulle: organ (Giacomo Antegnati (1554), Milano,
Chiesa di San Maurizio)
7. Canzona sesta sopra la Pesenti Girolamo Frescobaldi 2’34
Siebe Henstra: harpsichord
8. Ricercar primo Girolamo Frescobaldi 4’57
9. Capriccio sopra la Bassa Fiamenga Girolamo Frescobaldi 5’34
Gustav Leonhardt: harpsichord
10. Toccata nona Girolamo Frescobaldi 5’17
Bernard Foccroulle: organ (Giacomo Antegnati (1554), Milano,
Chiesa di San Maurizio)
11. Cento partite sopra passacagli Girolamo Frescobaldi 10’58
Siebe Henstra: harpsichord
12. Passemezzo Givanni Picchi 4’41
Jean-Marc Aymes: harpischord / Jörg Andreas Bötticher: organ
13. Partita variate sopra quest’aria francese Alessandro Piccinini 6’45
detta l’Allemana
Nigel North: chitarrone
14. Toccata prima G. Girolamo Kapsberger 4’37
Thomas Dunford: archlute
15. Passacaglie Angelo Michele Bartholotti 4’40
Peter Pieters: guitar
16. Ancidetimi pur Giovanni Maria Trabacci 4’13
Christina Pluhar: harp
17. Aria detta la Frescobalda Girolamo Frescobaldi 3’04
Marie Bournisien: harp / Quito Gato: theorbo

Variously from QUADRIVIUM SCA 030, Girolamo Fantini; ACCENT ACC 8861, Il Concerto Palatino di Bologna; LIGIA Lidi 0101221-10, Girolamo Frescobaldi; ALPHA 815, A tribute to Gustav Leonhardt


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