Splendours of the Gonzaga - Sacred Music from Wert to Monteverdi

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Label
Arcana
Release Date
May 12, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Biscantores, Luca Colombo
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 12, 2023
    • UPC
      3760195735459
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A545
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Confitebor tibi Domine "Alla francese", SV 267

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Vera Milani, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    2. Part I: Dum complerentur

      Composer: Benedetto Pallavicino

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    3. Part II: Cum ergo essent

      Composer: Benedetto Pallavicino

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    4. Hashirim asher lish'lomo (The Songs of Solomon): No. 7. Q'dusha (Keter yitnu)

      Composer: Salamone Rossi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    5. Adesto dolori meo

      Composer: Giaches de Wert

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Orla Shaloo-Brundrett, Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    6. Messa a 4, et salmi, SV 190-204: Laetaniae della Beata Vergine, SV 204

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Carolina Intrieri, Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi, Riccardo Pisani

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    7. Motectorum liber primus: Omnis homo primum

      Composer: Giaches de Wert

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    8. Magnificat per omnes tonos: Magnificat VIII toni

      Composer: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Orla Shaloo-Brundrett, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    9. Misericordia Domini

      Composer: Benedetto Pallavicino

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    10. Cantate Domino canticum novum, SV 293

      Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    11. Sacra omnium solemnitatum vespertina psalmodia cum cantico B. Virginis: Dixit Dominus VI toni

      Composer: Amante Franzoni

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    12. Motectorum liber primus: Speremus meliora omnes

      Composer: Giaches de Wert

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Riccardo Pisani, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    13. Hashirim asher lish'lomo (The Songs of Solomon): No. 3. Yesusum midbar

      Composer: Salamone Rossi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Vera Milani, Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo

    14. Completorium perfectum ad usum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae, Book 2: Regina coeli

      Composer: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

      Ensemble: Ensemble Biscantores

      Performer: Francesca Cassinari, Elena Carzaniga, Roberto Rilievi, Gabriele Lombardi

      Conductor: Luca Arnaldo Maria Colombo


Mantua and the Gonzaga family represent one of the summits of European humanistic and Renaissance expression. This project addresses one of the city's greatest periods with sacred works by the leading musicians of the Gonzaga court, at a time when music was the primary tool employed by the Gonzaga dukes to assert their prestige over other Italian cities; this golden age began with the foundation of the Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara and its cappella under Giaches de Wert during the rule of Guglielmo Gonzaga in 1565 and lasted until the sack of Mantua in 1630. The Ensemble Biscantores specialise in the performance of late Renaissance and Baroque music; here, thanks to the research, study and transcriptions made by its director Luca Colombo, they explore the Mantuan court of the Gonzagas and the liturgy specific to the Basilica Palatina di Santa Barbara.