Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci / Blue Heron

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Label
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Release Date
October 4, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      RORE, CIPRIANO DE
    • PERFORMER
      Blue Heron, Alessandro Quarta, Metcalfe
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 04, 2019
    • UPC
      645312499625
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BHCD1009
    • LABEL
      Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Cantai mentre ch'I arsi

    2. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Cantai mentre ch'I arsi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    3. Hor che 'l ciel et la terra

    4. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che 'l ciel et la terra

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    5. Poggiand'al ciel

    6. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Poggiand'al ciel

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    7. Quand'io son tutto volto

    8. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quand'io son tutto volto

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    9. Solea lontana

    10. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Solea lontana

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    11. Altiero sasso

    12. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Altiero sasso

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    13. Strane rupi, aspri monti

    14. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Strane rupi, aspri monti

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    15. La vita fuge

    16. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): La vita fuge

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    17. Tu piangi

    18. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Tu piangi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    19. Il mal mi preme

    20. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Il mal mi preme

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    21. Per mezz'I boschi

    22. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Per mezz'I boschi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    23. Quanto piu m'avicino

    24. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quanto piu m'avicino

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    25. Perseguendomi Amor

    26. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Perseguendomi Amor

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    27. Chi vol veder

    28. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Chi vol veder

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    29. Quel sempre acerbo

    30. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Quel sempre acerbo

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    31. Far potess'io vendetta

    32. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Far potess'io vendetta

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    33. Amor, che vedi

    34. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Amor, che vedi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    35. Ben si conviene a voi

    36. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Ben si conviene a voi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    37. Hor che l'aria e la terra

    38. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Hor che l'aria e la terra

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    39. Da quei bei lumi

    40. Madrigals, Book 1 (Il primo libro de madrigali): Da quei bei lumi

      Composer: Cipriano de Rore

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe


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.