This recording shines a spotlight on an often-overlooked centre of Italian music: Milan under the Spanish Habsburgs. After the Sforza family surrendered the Duchy of Milan to the French and eventually to the Holy Roman Empire, it came under the rule of a Spanish viceroy. Whilst the city lost its former political significance, the relative calm between two terrible plague epidemics in 1576 and 1630 spurred a cultural flowering under the patronage of Archbishop Federico Borromeo. The programme presents a richly varied soundscape from this city, featuring both sacred and secular works. Particular attention is paid to the unique Milanese genre of the ‘canzon-motteto’, in which a vocal ensemble engages in dialogue with instruments. The programme also features double-choir motets, canzonas and little-known, hyper-expressive madrigals by Francesco Rognoni Taeggio – better known as a violin virtuoso and master of improvised diminution – as well as works by Giovanni Paolo and Andrea Cima, Agostino Soderini, Francesco and Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio, and Giuseppe Gallo.
La Nobilta Di Milano: Music From The City Of The Spanish Viceroys – Bruce Dickey
G. Cima Concerti Ecclesiastici: No. 40, Assumpta est Maria
Taeggio Messa, salmi intieri e spezzati: O Rex Gloriae
A. Cima Concerti Ecclesiastici: No. 51, Capriccio d’Andrea Cima
Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: Quemadmodum desiderat
Taeggio Il primo libro de madrigali
Intenerite voi lagrime mie
Or che’l mio vago scoglio
Dialogo, Filli e Tirsi
A. Cima Partito de ricercari & canzoni alla francese: No. 15, La Scabrosa
Soderini Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: Egredimini filiae Sion
Giuseppe Gallo Sacri operis musici alternis: No. 68, Veni in hortum meum
Gussago Sonate a quattro, sei et otto: No. 13, Sonata La Badina
Soderini Canzoni per sonar a 4 e 8 voci: Ipse sum desponsata
Taeggio Il primo libro de madrigali
O dolcezze amarissime d’amore
Felice chi vi mira, madrigale a 5 (prima parte)
Ben ebbe amica stella (seconda parte)
Taeggio Selva de varii passaggi: Vestiva i colli, madrigale da Palestrina passaggiato
Giovanni Domenico Rognoni Taeggio Canzoni a 4 e 8 voci: La Niguarda
Soderini Sacrorum cantionum octopus et novem vocibus: Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris?
Giuseppe Gallo Magnficat anima mea a 9
Bruce Dickey, The Breathtaking Collective, Cappella Mariana, Barbora Kabátková, Hana Blažíková, Vojtěch Semerád, Tomáš Lajtkep, Martin Schicketanz, Simen Van Mechelen, Veronika Skuplik, Jan Krej
20,90€
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