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Rore, Willaert, Rosenberger: Tempi Agitati / New Vocal Soloists of Stuttgart
Mode Records

Rore, Willaert, Rosenberger: Tempi Agitati / New Vocal Soloists of Stuttgart

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Details

Composer
Katharina Rosenberger
Artist
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Format
CD
Label
Mode Records
Released
Apr 22, 2022
Catalog #
MOD-CD-334
UPC
764593033424

About

On April 6, 1327, a 22-year-old Italian poet named Francesco Petrarca caught a glimpse of a young woman, Laura, in a church in Avignon. He later reported that “living sparks issued from two lovely eyes”. Those sparks enflamed Petrarch such that he spent the rest of his illustrious career coming to terms with them. In the 16th century, madrigals were developed by Adrian Willaert and Cipriano de Rore, which took Petrarch’s agonized images as justification for violating the rules that had guided musicians since before the beginnings of notated music. Those living sparks have leapt ahead seven more centuries to inspire Katharina Rosenberger.

Rosenberger's tempi agitati embeds Petrarch’s texts (especially fragments from his “Ascent of Mount Ventoso”) and settings of sonnets by Willaert and Rore within her own responses to those materials. In live performance, Rosenberger works together with stage-director Ludger Engels to distribute members of the ensemble, Neue Vocalsolisten, around the sound space; they dart around throughout the site, thereby embodying Petrarch’s “vive faville.” While a sound recording lacks the visual dimension crucial to Rosenberger’s concept, it allows the listener to attend much more closely to her rich tapestry of sonorities as she puts Petrarch’s 14th-century poetry and 16th-century madrigals into dialogue with her extended vocal techniques. Sometimes the singers coalesce into whole polyphonic samples before returning to the extended vocal techniques from which they had emerged. Sometimes, finally, the madrigal itself appears, now intact. Rosenberger thereby simulates Petrarch’s struggle to put into coherent form his reactions to Laura’s glance. Those living sparks have indeed inflamed thousands: Laura’s glance goaded Petrarch to the heights of formal perfection in his sonnets, and it led the madrigalists to imagine tonal worlds far beyond the stylistic precepts they had inherited.

Tracklist 13 tracks

  1. 1 Vive Faville (Living Sparks): Prelude 00:34
    Track
    1
    Title
    Vive Faville (Living Sparks): Prelude
    Duration
    00:34
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  2. 2 Vive Faville (Living Sparks) 05:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    Vive Faville (Living Sparks)
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  3. 3 Io amai sempre (I always loved) 05:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    Io amai sempre (I always loved)
    Duration
    05:12
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  4. 4 Inaugurazione dello spazio (Inauguration of the space) 07:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    Inaugurazione dello spazio (Inauguration of the space)
    Duration
    07:38
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  5. 5 Vive Faville (fragments) 00:11
    Track
    5
    Title
    Vive Faville (fragments)
    Duration
    00:11
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  6. 6 Recitative I: Oggi, spinto dal solo desiderio… (Today led by a desire) 01:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    Recitative I: Oggi, spinto dal solo desiderio… (Today led by a desire)
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  7. 7 Recitative II: Un compagno di viaggio… (A traveling companion) 01:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    Recitative II: Un compagno di viaggio… (A traveling companion)
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  8. 8 O sonno (Oh sleep) 04:00
    Track
    8
    Title
    O sonno (Oh sleep)
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  9. 9 La Caccia (The chase) 05:19
    Track
    9
    Title
    La Caccia (The chase)
    Duration
    05:19
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  10. 10 Tutto'I dì piango (All day I weep) 02:08
    Track
    10
    Title
    Tutto'I dì piango (All day I weep)
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  11. 11 Punti allontanarsi (Points moving away) 05:17
    Track
    11
    Title
    Punti allontanarsi (Points moving away)
    Duration
    05:17
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  12. 12 Io canterei d'Amor (I'd like to sing of love) 01:53
    Track
    12
    Title
    Io canterei d'Amor (I'd like to sing of love)
    Duration
    01:53
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
  13. 13 Tratti confluenti (Confluent lines) 05:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    Tratti confluenti (Confluent lines)
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Katharina Rosenberger, Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore
    Ensemble
    Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart