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Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci / Blue Heron
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci / Blue Heron

$32.99

Details

Composer
RORE, CIPRIANO DE
Artist
Blue Heron, Alessandro Quarta, Metcalfe
Format
CD
Label
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Released
Oct 04, 2019
Catalog #
BHCD1009
UPC
645312499625

About

The first release of new material from Blue Heron since winning the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, this two-album set is the world-premiere recording of Cipriano de Rore’s landmark first book of madrigals for five voices. The set includes all twenty madrigals in De Rore’s 1542 print, as well as readings of the Italian poems (many of which are by Petrarch) by Alessandro Quarta. De Rore is celebrated as an innovator who helped create the madrigal as it is known today, putting the music at the service of the text and inventing a new, dramatic, and expressive harmonic language. In this music, listeners will perceive a deep engagement with the text, an engagement matched by the singers of Blue Heron, who were led by both Scott Metcalfe and Alessandro Quarta in developing an appropriately rhetorical style of performance. Musicologist Jessie Ann Owens has shown that the book is a poetic and musical cycle that likely resulted from a collaboration between De Rore and the Venetian poet Giovanni Brevio, who wrote the opening and closing poems of the set. The narrative structure is illustrated with “the colors of the modal system,” the madrigals being sequenced in modal order. Professor Owens’ research and conclusions are presented in extensive notes in the booklet. Prof. Owens and Blue Heron won the 2015 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, which provided stimulus funding for the project.

Tracklist 40 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 Cantai mentre ch'I arsi 01:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    Cantai mentre ch'I arsi
    Duration
    01:04
  3. 2 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Cantai mentre ch'I arsi 04:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Cantai mentre ch'I arsi
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  4. 3 Hor che 'l ciel et la terra 01:09
    Track
    3
    Title
    Hor che 'l ciel et la terra
    Duration
    01:09
  5. 4 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che 'l ciel et la terra 05:24
    Track
    4
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che 'l ciel et la terra
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  6. 5 Poggiand'al ciel 00:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Poggiand'al ciel
    Duration
    00:59
  7. 6 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Poggiand'al ciel 04:53
    Track
    6
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Poggiand'al ciel
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  8. 7 Quand'io son tutto volto 01:04
    Track
    7
    Title
    Quand'io son tutto volto
    Duration
    01:04
  9. 8 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quand'io son tutto volto 05:32
    Track
    8
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quand'io son tutto volto
    Duration
    05:32
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  10. 9 Solea lontana 00:54
    Track
    9
    Title
    Solea lontana
    Duration
    00:54
  11. 10 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Solea lontana 05:36
    Track
    10
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Solea lontana
    Duration
    05:36
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  12. 11 Altiero sasso 01:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    Altiero sasso
    Duration
    01:08
  13. 12 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Altiero sasso 04:23
    Track
    12
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Altiero sasso
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  14. 13 Strane rupi, aspri monti 01:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    Strane rupi, aspri monti
    Duration
    01:02
  15. 14 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Strane rupi, aspri monti 05:37
    Track
    14
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Strane rupi, aspri monti
    Duration
    05:37
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  16. 15 La vita fuge 00:53
    Track
    15
    Title
    La vita fuge
    Duration
    00:53
  17. 16 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): La vita fuge 05:24
    Track
    16
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): La vita fuge
    Duration
    05:24
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  18. 17 Tu piangi 01:05
    Track
    17
    Title
    Tu piangi
    Duration
    01:05
  19. 18 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Tu piangi 05:27
    Track
    18
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Tu piangi
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  20. Disc 2
  21. 1 Il mal mi preme 00:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    Il mal mi preme
    Duration
    00:57
  22. 2 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Il mal mi preme 05:57
    Track
    2
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Il mal mi preme
    Duration
    05:57
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  23. 3 Per mezz'I boschi 01:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    Per mezz'I boschi
    Duration
    01:03
  24. 4 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Per mezz'I boschi 05:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Per mezz'I boschi
    Duration
    05:29
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  25. 5 Quanto piu m'avicino 00:57
    Track
    5
    Title
    Quanto piu m'avicino
    Duration
    00:57
  26. 6 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quanto piu m'avicino 05:58
    Track
    6
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quanto piu m'avicino
    Duration
    05:58
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  27. 7 Perseguendomi Amor 00:52
    Track
    7
    Title
    Perseguendomi Amor
    Duration
    00:52
  28. 8 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Perseguendomi Amor 05:42
    Track
    8
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Perseguendomi Amor
    Duration
    05:42
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  29. 9 Chi vol veder 00:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    Chi vol veder
    Duration
    00:57
  30. 10 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Chi vol veder 05:53
    Track
    10
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Chi vol veder
    Duration
    05:53
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  31. 11 Quel sempre acerbo 01:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    Quel sempre acerbo
    Duration
    01:08
  32. 12 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quel sempre acerbo 04:52
    Track
    12
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quel sempre acerbo
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  33. 13 Far potess'io vendetta 01:00
    Track
    13
    Title
    Far potess'io vendetta
    Duration
    01:00
  34. 14 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Far potess'io vendetta 04:58
    Track
    14
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Far potess'io vendetta
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  35. 15 Amor, che vedi 01:10
    Track
    15
    Title
    Amor, che vedi
    Duration
    01:10
  36. 16 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Amor, che vedi 05:49
    Track
    16
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Amor, che vedi
    Duration
    05:49
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  37. 17 Ben si conviene a voi 00:28
    Track
    17
    Title
    Ben si conviene a voi
    Duration
    00:28
  38. 18 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Ben si conviene a voi 02:52
    Track
    18
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Ben si conviene a voi
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  39. 19 Hor che l'aria e la terra 00:45
    Track
    19
    Title
    Hor che l'aria e la terra
    Duration
    00:45
  40. 20 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che l'aria e la terra 03:43
    Track
    20
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che l'aria e la terra
    Duration
    03:43
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe
  41. 21 Da quei bei lumi 00:53
    Track
    21
    Title
    Da quei bei lumi
    Duration
    00:53
  42. 22 Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Da quei bei lumi 03:44
    Track
    22
    Title
    Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Da quei bei lumi
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Blue Heron
    Conductor
    Scott Metcalfe