Grandi: Celesti fiori - Motetti

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
July 12, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRANDI, ALESSANDRO
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Utfasol Ensemble
    • PERFORMER
      Accademia D'Arcadia, Lurig
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 12, 2019
    • UPC
      3760195734643
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A464
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. 21 Motetti, Book 1: O quam tu pulchra es

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    2. 17 Motetti, Book 4: Plorabo die ac nocte

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    3. 14 Motetti, Book 2: Lilia convalluim aeterni

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia, UtFaSol Ensemble

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    4. 21 Motetti, Book 1: In semita judicorum

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Performer: Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    5. O bone Jesu

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    6. Date nomini ejus

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia, UtFaSol Ensemble

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    7. Heu mihi

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    8. Salvum fac populum

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    9. 15 Motetti, Book 1: Bone Jesu

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia, UtFaSol Ensemble

      Performer: Laura Martinez Boj, Roberto Rilievi

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    10. 19 Motetti, Book 6: Domine ne in furore tuo

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    11. 17 Motetti, Book 4: Surge propera

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Performer: Laura Martinez Boj, Renato Cadel

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    12. 17 Motetti, Book 4: Factum est silentium

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia, UtFaSol Ensemble

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    13. 21 Motetti, Book 1: Vidi speciosam

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    14. Celesti fiori … de suoi: Veniat dilectus meus

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig

    15. Nisi Dominus

      Composer: Alessandro Grandi

      Ensemble: Accademia d'Arcadia, UtFaSol Ensemble

      Conductor: Alessandra Rossi Lürig


Alessandro Grandi (born in Venice in 1590), regarded by scholars as "the greatest motet composer of his time," was a prominent figure of the new Venetian style in the first half of the seventeenth century. An extremely precocious talent, he was considered by his contemporaries equal to Claudio Monteverdi, to whom he was appointed deputy in 1627 in Saint Mark's Basilica. Yet our knowledge of his life and musical output is scanty, and thus he has remained mostly undiscovered. "Celesti fiori" (celestial flowers), a title taken from his Fifth Book of Motets, is the first complete monograph recording dedicated to this important composer. It consists of a selection of works, almost all recorded here for the first time, chosen from his books of motets, all published between 1610 and 1630, the year in which he was killed by the plague, along with his large family. Recorded in the extraordinary acoustics of the Basilica di Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Monteverdi worked during his long stay in the city, this project features the splendid voices of the Accademia d'Arcadia, an ensemble recently founded in 2018 for the purpose of performing Italian music of the seventeenth century.