Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 7 / Longhini, Delitiae Musicae

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Naxos
Release Date
September 30, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      MONTEVERDI, CLAUDIO
    • PERFORMER
      Longhini, Delitae Musicae
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 30, 2008
    • UPC
      747313531424
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8555314-16
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. Symphonia: Tempro la cetra

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    2. A quest'olmo, a quest'ombre

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    3. Non e di gentil core

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    4. O come sei gentile

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    5. Io son pur vezzosetta pastorella

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    6. O viva fiamma, o miei sospiri ardenti

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    7. Vorrei baciarti, o Filli

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    8. Dice la mia bellissima Licori

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    9. Ah che non si conviene

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    10. Non vedro mai le stelle

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    11. Ecco vicine, o bella tigre, l'ore

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    12. Perche fuggi tra' salci, ritrosetta

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    13. Tornate, o cari baci

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    14. Soave libertate

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    15. Se'l vostro cor, madonna

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    16. Interrotte speranze, eterna fede

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    17. Augellin che la voce al canto spieghi

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    18. Vaga su spina ascosa

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    19. Eccomi pronta ai baci

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    20. Parlo, miser, o taccio?

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    21. Tu dormi, ah crudo core!

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    22. Al lume delle stelle

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    23. Con che soavita, labbra adorate

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    24. Part 1: Ohime, dov'e il mio ben, dov'e il mio core?

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    25. Part 2: Dunque ha potuto sol desio d'onore

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    26. Part 3: Dunque ha potuto in me più che'l mio amore

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    27. Part 4: Ahi sciocco mondo e cieco, ahi cruda sorte

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    28. Se i languidi miei sguardi

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    29. A voi mi volgo o chiome

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    30. Cara mia selva d'oro

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    31. Dolcissimi legami

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    32. Ma gia l'ora m'invita

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    33. Se pur destina e vole il cielo

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    34. Deh con più lenta mano

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    35. Lumi, voi che vedeste

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    36. Ma deh, luci serene

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    37. Ma qual timor mi punge?

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    38. Chiome d'oro

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    39. Amor, che deggio far?

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    40. Per monti e per valli (Tirsi, Clori)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    41. Balliamo, che il gregge (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    42. Balliam, che nel Cielo (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    43. Balliam, che d'intorno (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    44. Balliamo che l'onde (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    45. Balliam, che i vezzosi (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini

    46. Balliamo e giriamo (Tutti)

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Delitiæ Musicæ

      Conductor: Marco Longhini




MONTEVERDI Madrigals, Book 7 • Marco Longhini, dir; Delitiae Musicae • NAXOS 8.555314 (3 CDs: 162:45 Text and Translation)


Following the first six books of madrigals (30:2, 31: 2), with the rest promised in due course, Longhini’s new Book 7 was recorded in a single week using his new critical edition, the first since Malapiero’s in 1932. This is only the fourth complete recorded set of the collection that was published in 1619 as “Concerto,” preceded by Raymond Leppard issued in 1977 (3:2), Roberto Gini in 1989 (14: 1), and Claudio Cavina in 1998 (26:4). While Leppard was working on his recordings, Michel Corboz made eight LPs of madrigals drawn from all the books, including 17 of Book 7’s 29 pieces. It is remarkable that the timings of the four sets have lengthened with each new version, though the two most nearly alike (Gini and Cavina) are less than a minute apart overall. For Longhini, this is not unexpected, for the tempos in all of his previous discs have been longer than most of the alternatives.


Book 7 was the last Leppard set to appear on Philips, and the LPs were not even issued in England, perhaps because the previous sets had been received less than enthusiastically. His six complete books, recorded for Philips from 1969 to 1975, were issued in a box of eight CDs only in 1998, although in the first year of the CD EMI had reissued the much older recordings that he had made for them. There is a connection between the other two sets, for Cavina had been a member of Gini’s group (he then joined Rinaldo Alessandrini’s group, which has still not recorded Book 7, before forming his own ensemble).


Book 7 was a remarkable advance over Monteverdi’s first six books, which were all set for five voices. The title page for this book made clear the break by specifying madrigals for one, two, three, four, and six voices together with other kinds of sung works. Longhini’s notes are illuminating, for he has learned much in preparing his own edition from the 1619 edition and four reprints, as well as from the original published texts of the poems. He cites Claudio Gallico’s statement that the pieces are arranged in a “carefully calculated and finely balanced” way, setting it against Cavina’s reordering of the pieces in his recording (the only one of the four to do so). He explains in detail the errors that he has corrected not only in Malapiero’s edition but also in the original.


Longhini’s ensemble consists of seven male voices (two countertenors on the top lines) with 15 players. Each track specifies the participants. He defends the use of a countertenor in “Lettera amorosa,” more often (but by no means always) sung by a woman, for the poet himself specified that the letter is being read by the impatient writer, not the recipient. Apart from what his group sings is the matter of how the group sings. As noted in previous reviews, Longhini’s tempos reflect a preference for expression and harmonic subtlety over speed and agility. His all-male ensemble requires downward transposition. His use of instruments, optional in most of the earlier works, is no longer an issue now in works that specify them, even calling for two flutes in “A quest’olmo.” A total timing more than 15 percent slower than the other two modern sets (even greater with respect to Leppard) seems enormous, but it is not. To be sure, “A quest’olmo” is the only piece that is not the slowest of the four versions, but only three or four pieces are notably slower than the competition. This is simply a more relaxed interpretation, made more obvious only because it spills over to a third disc.


The singers are remarkably fine, and the new edition deserves close attention. His current competition, of course, is Cavina, who doubtless defends the contrast that he provides by choosing a different order for the selections. He also has a splendid group of singers and a deluxe presentation, if slightly more expensive. There are clear differences between the interpretations of Cavina and Longhini, but each is worth a serious hearing.


FANFARE: J. F. Weber