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Malipiero & Monteverdi-Malipiero: Music for String Quartet / Quartetto Sincronie
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Malipiero & Monteverdi-Malipiero: Music for String Quartet / Quartetto Sincronie

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$18.99

Details

Composer
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Claudio Monteverdi
Artist
Houman Vaziri, Agnese Maria Balestracci, Arianna Bloise, Ester Vianello
Format
CD
Label
Stradivarius
Released
Jan 05, 2024
Catalog #
STR37281
UPC
8011570372819

About

In the dark years of the Nazi-Fascist period, when the light of the end was still far off, Malipiero completed a long-awaited undertaking: an edition of the complete works of Claudio Monteverdi. Its last volume, the sixteenth, came out in 1942 at the height of the war. The edition contained the sacred production that the publisher Vincenti had assembled in the collection Messa a 4 voci et salmi (1650).

Quartetto Sincronie’s choice to include an arrangement of Monteverdi’s Mass, alternating the parts with Malipiero’s work, is yet another example of reinvention-creation that Malipiero would likely have appreciated. In the composers’ poetics, instruments are asked to sing as voices, and so the opposite—voices translated to instruments—is fitting. Philological rigor was, after all, foreign to Malipiero’s worldview. Instead, the composer spoke of his relationship with Monteverdi as a kind of psychic channeling: finding synchronicity within the synchrony of listening, which dissolves the distance of centuries. The Mass for Four Voices is thus split into parts throughout the record, but it remains possible to orient oneself. The cohesion is melodic: there’s a descending tetrachord G-F-E-D at the beginning of the Kyrie that returns in various guises (inverted, diminished, augmented), articulating the contrapuntal fabric of the different movements. The listener can thus follow this pathway, from the Gloria to the Agnus Dei, in a zigzag that turns Monteverdi the sacred “refrain” to Malipiero’s profane cycle of quartets.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Kyrie 03:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    Kyrie
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  2. 2 String Quartet No. 2, "Stornelli e ballate" 16:38
    Track
    2
    Title
    String Quartet No. 2, "Stornelli e ballate"
    Duration
    16:38
    Composer
    Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  3. 3 Gloria 04:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  4. 4 String Quartet No. 3, "Cantari alla madrigalesca" 16:56
    Track
    4
    Title
    String Quartet No. 3, "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
    Duration
    16:56
    Composer
    Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  5. 5 Credo 05:09
    Track
    5
    Title
    Credo
    Duration
    05:09
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  6. 6 String Quartet No. 6, "L'arca di Noè" 19:13
    Track
    6
    Title
    String Quartet No. 6, "L'arca di Noè"
    Duration
    19:13
    Composer
    Gian Francesco Malipiero
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  7. 7 Sanctus 02:23
    Track
    7
    Title
    Sanctus
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  8. 8 Benedictus 01:09
    Track
    8
    Title
    Benedictus
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie
  9. 9 Agnus Dei 01:36
    Track
    9
    Title
    Agnus Dei
    Duration
    01:36
    Composer
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Sincronie