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It's always a wonderful thing when a dream-team of artists resurrects and ravishingly records lesser-known repertoire, and that's precisely what we have here from Leonardo García Alarćon's Capella Mediterranea, joined by sopranos Mariana Flores and Julie Roset.
Alive roughly between 1582 and 1629, musician-courtesan Sigismondo d'India was writing just as the late Renaissance style gave way to the early Baroque, and in parallel with Monteverdi he was a key figure in developing that new musical language – one which broke free of the fixed rules of polyphony, and moved instead towards monodies in a more mannered style whose raison d'être was to express heightened emotion; D'India then consolidated that new, intensely expressive way of writing in the five books of accompanied monodies he produced between 1609 and 1623. And if all that sounds a bit textbook, the bottom line is that the selection of madrigal-esque accompanied pieces for one or two sopranos Alarcon has presented over this generous two-disc programme plunge the listener into such a world of silence-imbued, soulful melancholic beauty and contemplation that, once you've dived in, re-surfacing feels thoroughly painful.
Of course it's Flores and Roset who play the starring roles in all this magic. In tonal quality alone they've been brilliantly cast, their respective ethereally pure voices a perfect match both for each other and for the music, Flores's tones just a shade softer and darker than those of Roset. Then there's their warmly expressive readings of the texts, and the technical control and colouristic nuance of their embellishments as they gently float their lines. Essentially, you're mere seconds into their curtain-raising duet, Ardo, lassa, o non ardo?, when you've clocked that this is album is a gold-plated keeper. Meanwhile the sensitive support from Cappella Mediterranea – appearing here in a chamber subset of lute, theorbo, harp and viola da gamba, led by Alarćon at the harpsichord and organ – is exquisitely delicate, lucid-textured and seductively shaped; tone-setting and responsive in equal measure, they've given Flores and Roset everything they need to bounce off.
Listen to any one of these tracks in isolation and you'll give yourself a precious few minutes of contemplative bliss, but I'd be surprised if one proves to be enough. Essentially, this is an album to lose yourself in. © Charlotte Gardner/Qobuz
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Giovanni Battista Marino, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Ottavio Rinuccini, Lyricist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Gabriello Chiabrera, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Giovanni Battista Marino, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Francesco Petraca, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Composer
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer, Lyricist - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist - Francesco Bracciolini, Lyricist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Francesco Petrarca, Lyricist - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Francesco Ferranti, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Francesco Ferranti, Lyricist
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Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer, Lyricist - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
2021 Outhere 2020 Outhere
Anonymous, Lyricist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
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Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Sigismondo D'India, Composer - Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, Conductor, MainArtist - Cappella Mediterranea, Ensemble, MainArtist - Mariana Flores, Soloist, MainArtist - Gabriello Chiabrera, Lyricist - Julie Roset, Soloist, MainArtist
2021 Outhere 2020 Outhere
Album review
It's always a wonderful thing when a dream-team of artists resurrects and ravishingly records lesser-known repertoire, and that's precisely what we have here from Leonardo García Alarćon's Capella Mediterranea, joined by sopranos Mariana Flores and Julie Roset.
Alive roughly between 1582 and 1629, musician-courtesan Sigismondo d'India was writing just as the late Renaissance style gave way to the early Baroque, and in parallel with Monteverdi he was a key figure in developing that new musical language – one which broke free of the fixed rules of polyphony, and moved instead towards monodies in a more mannered style whose raison d'être was to express heightened emotion; D'India then consolidated that new, intensely expressive way of writing in the five books of accompanied monodies he produced between 1609 and 1623. And if all that sounds a bit textbook, the bottom line is that the selection of madrigal-esque accompanied pieces for one or two sopranos Alarcon has presented over this generous two-disc programme plunge the listener into such a world of silence-imbued, soulful melancholic beauty and contemplation that, once you've dived in, re-surfacing feels thoroughly painful.
Of course it's Flores and Roset who play the starring roles in all this magic. In tonal quality alone they've been brilliantly cast, their respective ethereally pure voices a perfect match both for each other and for the music, Flores's tones just a shade softer and darker than those of Roset. Then there's their warmly expressive readings of the texts, and the technical control and colouristic nuance of their embellishments as they gently float their lines. Essentially, you're mere seconds into their curtain-raising duet, Ardo, lassa, o non ardo?, when you've clocked that this is album is a gold-plated keeper. Meanwhile the sensitive support from Cappella Mediterranea – appearing here in a chamber subset of lute, theorbo, harp and viola da gamba, led by Alarćon at the harpsichord and organ – is exquisitely delicate, lucid-textured and seductively shaped; tone-setting and responsive in equal measure, they've given Flores and Roset everything they need to bounce off.
Listen to any one of these tracks in isolation and you'll give yourself a precious few minutes of contemplative bliss, but I'd be surprised if one proves to be enough. Essentially, this is an album to lose yourself in. © Charlotte Gardner/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:31:54
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Mariana Florès Julie Roset Capella Mediterranea
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Ricercar
- Genre: Classical
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