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Imago: Virgilio Nella / Testolin, Musica della Rinascenza, De Labyrintho
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Imago: Virgilio Nella / Testolin, Musica della Rinascenza, De Labyrintho

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Details

Composer
ARCADELT DESPREZ LASSO
Artist
De Labyrintho, Musica Della Rinascenza, Testolin
Format
CD
Label
Stradivarius
Released
Jan 27, 2017
Catalog #
STR37065
UPC
8011570370655

About

"Imago", one of the last words spoken by Dido as she approaches death after having been abandoned by Aeneas, becomes the emblem of this overview on Virgil's musical fortune during the Renaissance. To the humanists, Publius Vergilius Maro was a model to aim for, by virtue of his garland of subjects and perfection of style. The search for manuscripts of his works in documented to have been ongoing since the late fourteenth century. In Mantua, amongst his collections, Francesco Gonzaga had Vergilian codices and a copy of the Aeneid in vernacular - Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, born and educated in Ferrara, once become Marquise, began to cultivate reading Virgil and planned to honor the poet with a monument, designed by Andrea Mantegna. At the courts of teh Padan Plain, Virgil's verses became moreover creative material for musicians, who, with increasing frequency, set them to music according to the forms and styles of the moment. To gather them, means also to draw a line which, from Josquin Desprez to Orlando di Lasso, traces Virgil's fortune amidst the flow of compositional research of those years. Although the use of the Latin text in fact characterizes the form of the motet, usually elevated and abstract, it will not escape notice that especially the passages from Aeneid inspire compositional solutions similar to those experimented in the tumultuous world of the madrigal in Italian. Wanting thus to give a hint of this very turmoil, vocal arrangements were chosen which enhance the narrative texts, and some passages were entrusted solely to the instruments - practice much in vogue at the time. The selection, which is only part of the existing repertoire, follows a narrative thread - the bucolic exordium, the epic and encomiastic occasions, the telling of Dido, the inspiration given by Virgil.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Tityre, tu patulae 04:01
    Track
    1
    Title
    Tityre, tu patulae
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Orlande de Lassus
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  2. 2 O socii durate 04:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    O socii durate
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Adrian Willaert
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  3. 3 O socii neque 04:43
    Track
    3
    Title
    O socii neque
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  4. 4 Fama malum 02:57
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fama malum
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Josquin des Prez
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  5. 5 Chanson de Josquin a 4 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    Chanson de Josquin a 4
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Josquin des Prez
    Ensemble
    Musica della Rinascenza
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  6. 6 Dulces exuviae 03:54
    Track
    6
    Title
    Dulces exuviae
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Josquin des Prez
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  7. 7 At trepida et coeptis immanibus 04:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    At trepida et coeptis immanibus
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Jacques Arcadelt
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  8. 8 Dissimulare etiam sperasti 09:01
    Track
    8
    Title
    Dissimulare etiam sperasti
    Duration
    09:01
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  9. 9 Dulces exuviae a 4 04:44
    Track
    9
    Title
    Dulces exuviae a 4
    Duration
    04:44
    Composer
    Adrian Willaert
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  10. 10 Dulces exuviae 03:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    Dulces exuviae
    Duration
    03:39
    Composer
    Marbrianus de Orto
    Ensemble
    Musica della Rinascenza
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  11. 11 Dulces exuviae 06:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    Dulces exuviae
    Duration
    06:23
    Composer
    Orlande de Lassus
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  12. 12 Enceladi Coeique soror 02:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    Enceladi Coeique soror
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Jacquet of Mantua
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin
  13. 13 Alma venus 05:22
    Track
    13
    Title
    Alma venus
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Orlande de Lassus
    Ensemble
    De Labyrintho
    Conductor
    Walter Testolin