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Belgium's Ricercar label has issued top-notch performances of a great deal of 17th century music that without its efforts would have remained obscure. The good news continues with this album of music by Giovanni Felice Sances, an Italian trained in Venice who went on to serve the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. His motets, for a solo voice up to a quartet plus continuo, certainly take the music of Monteverdi as a point of departure, but Sances' motets have a sober quality that annotator and group leader Nicholas Achten attributes to the Catholicism of the Habsburgs and the lingering influence of the purifying Council of Trent. The motets are fairly simple, oriented toward text intelligibility, and opportunities for vocal display are few in comparison with Monteverdi. Yet Achten somewhat overstates this aspect of the music, and the program as a whole provides a nice example of the ways composers adapted the Monteverdi style to the requirements of the work situations in which they found themselves around Europe. Sances is generally direct, but when he comes to a text with strongly romantic-sexual imagery, such as Dulcis amor Iesu (Jesus, my sweet love, sweet treasure, my beloved, I ask you to pierce me with your arrows, track 3), he responds in kind with an expanded melodic palette. The highlight is Sances' Stabat Mater (track 8), usually sung by a countertenor but here rendered by Achten himself, a baritone. It's a magnificent setting, unfolding with a profound mixture of tragedy and inner logic over 10 1/5 minutes of monodic style. The performances by Achten's group Scherzi Musicali are superb. The large continuo group, including multiple strummed strings and sometimes both harpsichord and organ, are applied not only to the vocal pieces but also to various instrumental toccatas and preludes by other composers, giving them the effect of natural interludes in the program rather than intrusions from a whole different genre. Strongly recommended for lovers of the early Baroque. All texts are given in German, French, and English, as well as the original Latin.
© TiVo
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vielset, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Sarah Ridy, Performer - Girolamo Kapsberger, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Reinoud Van Mechelen, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vielset, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vieslet, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Luigi Rossi, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Michelangelo Rossi, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vielset, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vielset, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Céline Vielset, Performer - Marie de Roy, Performer - Reinoud Van Mechelen, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Scherzi Musicali, Performer - Nicolas Achten, Performer - Olivier Berten, Performer - Giovanni Felice Sances, Composer
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Albumbeschreibung
Belgium's Ricercar label has issued top-notch performances of a great deal of 17th century music that without its efforts would have remained obscure. The good news continues with this album of music by Giovanni Felice Sances, an Italian trained in Venice who went on to serve the Habsburg monarchy in Vienna. His motets, for a solo voice up to a quartet plus continuo, certainly take the music of Monteverdi as a point of departure, but Sances' motets have a sober quality that annotator and group leader Nicholas Achten attributes to the Catholicism of the Habsburgs and the lingering influence of the purifying Council of Trent. The motets are fairly simple, oriented toward text intelligibility, and opportunities for vocal display are few in comparison with Monteverdi. Yet Achten somewhat overstates this aspect of the music, and the program as a whole provides a nice example of the ways composers adapted the Monteverdi style to the requirements of the work situations in which they found themselves around Europe. Sances is generally direct, but when he comes to a text with strongly romantic-sexual imagery, such as Dulcis amor Iesu (Jesus, my sweet love, sweet treasure, my beloved, I ask you to pierce me with your arrows, track 3), he responds in kind with an expanded melodic palette. The highlight is Sances' Stabat Mater (track 8), usually sung by a countertenor but here rendered by Achten himself, a baritone. It's a magnificent setting, unfolding with a profound mixture of tragedy and inner logic over 10 1/5 minutes of monodic style. The performances by Achten's group Scherzi Musicali are superb. The large continuo group, including multiple strummed strings and sometimes both harpsichord and organ, are applied not only to the vocal pieces but also to various instrumental toccatas and preludes by other composers, giving them the effect of natural interludes in the program rather than intrusions from a whole different genre. Strongly recommended for lovers of the early Baroque. All texts are given in German, French, and English, as well as the original Latin.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:01
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Scherzi Musicali Nicolas Achten
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Ricercar
- Genre: Klassiek
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