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What was the context in which so great a masterpiece such as Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo could be born back in 1607, invested with such beauty, endowed with such profundity of expression and so perfect a structure, at a time when the operatic form was still in its infancy? These are precisely the questions that lie at the origin of this recording project, giving Pichon and his musicians the opportunity to discover the astonishing musico-dramatic productions that preceded L’Orfeo, notably those performed at the Medici court in Florence, in which one may discern the seeds of numerous elements to be found in L’Orfeo. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, it was ovbviously the city of the Medici that was the main focus of one of the most fascinating moments in the history of music: the birth of opera. Concentrating on the years from 1589 to 1611, i.e. the premiere of the intermedi for theatre piece called La pellegrina at one end and the performance in Florence of Marco da Gagliano’s Dafne at the other, Pichon has devised four imaginary “interludes” – inspired by the form of the intermedio so popular at this period – in which he assembled some of the finest examples of the first stirrings of opera, the music pieces of which are signed Lorenzo Allegri, Antonio Brunelli, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Giulio Caccini, Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Girolamo Fantini, Marco da Gagliano, Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio, Alessandro Orologio, Jacopo Peri and Alessandro Striggio. In imitation of the ancient theatre, intermedi were entertainments inserted between the acts of plays, with sumptuous visual effects, which provided a pretext for allegories to the glory of the reigning dynasty. The place of music and the fantastic element in theatrical performances acquired an ever grander and more spectacular character, thanks notably to the genius of set designers and the progress made in the domain of stage machinery. Seeing the artistic and political potential of the genre, the powerful princely families of the northern half of Italy (Gonzagas, Este and Medici, as well as the papal court), encouraged its development. Intermedi ended up occupying so important a place that they became a show within the show, with the aim of dazzling the audience. It was in 1589 that the Florentine tradition of intermedi attained its zenith, with the six sumptuous entertainments devised by Count Bardi to accompany the comedy La pellegrina, performed on the occasion of the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinando I and Princess Christina of Lorraine, grand-daughter of Catarina de’ Medici. In their variety and novelty, with a balanced combination of polyphony and the nascent monody, not forgetting instrumental and dance music, the intermedi of 1589 opened the way for an integrally sung form of theatre. And indeed it was once again Florence that witnessed the first examples of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the perfect model of the alliance between poetry and music. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, a veritable laboratory was set up in Florence, prompting poets and composers to bring together several forms of musical expression in a single place? Building on the models established by earlier generations, composers continued their experiments with sound-space and the spatialisation of music, what with the proliferation of echo effects in the early monodies, or madrigals featuring dialogues between as many as seven independent choirs. But how can one tell this story nowadays, revive this rich adventure? The solution chosen for this recording was to create from scratch a large-scale imaginary work, resembling an initiatory journey, that would weld these multiple works into a single whole.
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All'imperio d'Amore (Girolamo Fantini)
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Girolamo Fantini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Sophie Junker, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Safir Behloul, Primary, Soloist - Renaud Bres, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Davy Cornillot, Primary, Soloist - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Luca Marenzio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Davy Cornillot, Primary, Soloist - Virgile Ancely, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Renato Dolcini, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Antonio Brunelli, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Alessandro Striggio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Luca Marenzio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
La Favolla d'Apollo (Cristofano Malvezzi)
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Nicolas Brooymans, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Davy Cornillot, Primary, Soloist - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Davy Cornillot, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Nicolas Brooymans, Primary, Soloist - Marco da Gagliano, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Luca Marenzio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Alessandro Orologio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Marco da Gagliano, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Luca Marenzio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Davy Cornillot, Primary, Soloist - Virgile Ancely, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Luciana Mancini, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Marco da Gagliano, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Marco da Gagliano, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Sophie Junker, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Luciana Mancini, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Marco da Gagliano, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
DISC 2
Le Lagrime d'Orfeo (Lorenzo Allegri)
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Lorenzo Allegri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Jacopo Peri - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Luciana Mancini, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Jacopo Peri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Renato Dolcini, Primary, Soloist - Jacopo Peri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Jacopo Peri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Lorenzo Allegri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Renato Dolcini, Primary, Soloist - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Luca Marenzio, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Safir Behloul, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Virgile Ancely, Primary, Soloist - Giulio Caccini, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Renato Dolcini, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Jacopo Peri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Jacopo Peri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Il Ballo degli reali Amanti (Giovanni Battista Buonamente)
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Lucile Richardot, Primary, Soloist - Nicolas Brooymans, Primary, Soloist - Deborah Cachet, Primary, Soloist - Renaud Bres, Primary, Soloist - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Zachary Wilder, Primary, Soloist - Cristofano Malvezzi, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Pygmalion, Primary - Raphael Pichon, Conductor, Primary - Sophie Junker, Primary, Soloist - Luciana Mancini, Primary, Soloist - Maïlys De Villoutreys, Primary, Soloist - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Composer
2017 harmonia mundi harmonia mundi 2017
Album review
What was the context in which so great a masterpiece such as Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo could be born back in 1607, invested with such beauty, endowed with such profundity of expression and so perfect a structure, at a time when the operatic form was still in its infancy? These are precisely the questions that lie at the origin of this recording project, giving Pichon and his musicians the opportunity to discover the astonishing musico-dramatic productions that preceded L’Orfeo, notably those performed at the Medici court in Florence, in which one may discern the seeds of numerous elements to be found in L’Orfeo. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, it was ovbviously the city of the Medici that was the main focus of one of the most fascinating moments in the history of music: the birth of opera. Concentrating on the years from 1589 to 1611, i.e. the premiere of the intermedi for theatre piece called La pellegrina at one end and the performance in Florence of Marco da Gagliano’s Dafne at the other, Pichon has devised four imaginary “interludes” – inspired by the form of the intermedio so popular at this period – in which he assembled some of the finest examples of the first stirrings of opera, the music pieces of which are signed Lorenzo Allegri, Antonio Brunelli, Giovanni Battista Buonamente, Giulio Caccini, Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Girolamo Fantini, Marco da Gagliano, Cristofano Malvezzi, Luca Marenzio, Alessandro Orologio, Jacopo Peri and Alessandro Striggio. In imitation of the ancient theatre, intermedi were entertainments inserted between the acts of plays, with sumptuous visual effects, which provided a pretext for allegories to the glory of the reigning dynasty. The place of music and the fantastic element in theatrical performances acquired an ever grander and more spectacular character, thanks notably to the genius of set designers and the progress made in the domain of stage machinery. Seeing the artistic and political potential of the genre, the powerful princely families of the northern half of Italy (Gonzagas, Este and Medici, as well as the papal court), encouraged its development. Intermedi ended up occupying so important a place that they became a show within the show, with the aim of dazzling the audience. It was in 1589 that the Florentine tradition of intermedi attained its zenith, with the six sumptuous entertainments devised by Count Bardi to accompany the comedy La pellegrina, performed on the occasion of the wedding of Grand Duke Ferdinando I and Princess Christina of Lorraine, grand-daughter of Catarina de’ Medici. In their variety and novelty, with a balanced combination of polyphony and the nascent monody, not forgetting instrumental and dance music, the intermedi of 1589 opened the way for an integrally sung form of theatre. And indeed it was once again Florence that witnessed the first examples of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the perfect model of the alliance between poetry and music. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, a veritable laboratory was set up in Florence, prompting poets and composers to bring together several forms of musical expression in a single place? Building on the models established by earlier generations, composers continued their experiments with sound-space and the spatialisation of music, what with the proliferation of echo effects in the early monodies, or madrigals featuring dialogues between as many as seven independent choirs. But how can one tell this story nowadays, revive this rich adventure? The solution chosen for this recording was to create from scratch a large-scale imaginary work, resembling an initiatory journey, that would weld these multiple works into a single whole.
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 37 track(s)
- Total length: 01:42:43
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: harmonia mundi
- Area: Italie
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Baroque Music
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