Monteverdi: Il sesto libro de madrigali RossoPorpora & Walter Testolin

• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107:
• 1 Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107: No. 1, Lasciatemi morire 02:28
• 2 Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107: No. 2, O Teseo mio! 05:33
• 3 Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107: No. 3, Dove è la fede 02:42
• 4 Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna, SV 107: No. 4, Che non pur risponde! 04:10
• Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena, SV 108:
• 5 Monteverdi: Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena, SV 108 04:22
• Una Donna fra l'altre honesta e bella vidi, SV 109:
• 6 Monteverdi: Una Donna fra l'altre honesta e bella vidi, SV 109 03:57
• A Dio, Florida bella, SV 110:
• 7 Monteverdi: A Dio, Florida bella, SV 110 04:29
• Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111:
• 8 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 1, Avara tomba 02:25
• 9 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 2, O fiumi, e voi, ch’udiste Glauco 02:13
• 10 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 3, Darà la notte il sol lume alla terra 02:43
• 11 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 4, O Ninfa, in grembo 'l cielo 02:57
• 12 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 5, Neve gentil del seno 02:44
• 13 Monteverdi: Sestina, Lagrime d'amante, SV 111: No. 6, Amate reliquie, un mar di pianto 03:56
• Ohimè il bel viso, SV 112:
• 14 Monteverdi: Ohimè il bel viso, SV 112 05:50
• Qui rise, O Tirsi, SV 113:
• 15 Monteverdi: Qui rise, O Tirsi, SV 113 07:26
• Misero Alceo, SV 114:
• 16 Monteverdi: Misero Alceo, SV 114 05:12
• Batto, qui pianse Ergasto, SV 115:
• 17 Monteverdi: Batto, qui pianse Ergasto, SV 115 03:54
• Presso un fiume tranquillo, SV 116:
• 18 Monteverdi: Presso un fiume tranquillo, SV 116 06:20
• Total Runtime 01:13:21

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RossoPorpora made its Arcana debut with an album dedicated to Luca Marenzio, which received widespread critical acclaim, including the German Record Critics' Award, Classic Voice’s Disc of the Month, a Diapason rating of 5, and five-star reviews from Musica and Amadeus. It was described as “magnificent” by Early Music Review and hailed as “a desert island disc” by Forum Opéra. Now, with its second album, the ensemble turns to one of the cornerstones of 17th-century music: Claudio Monteverdi’s Sixth Book of Madrigals. In a deeply immersive exploration of the composer’s inner world during his final years in Mantua, RossoPorpora delivers a profoundly moving interpretation of the many masterpieces contained in the collection—Lamento d’Arianna, Lagrime d’Amante sul sepolcro dell’Amata, Zefiro torna, Oimè ’l bel viso, Qui rise o Tirsi—which together mark one of the highest achievements in the history of the madrigal.

RossoPorpora Ensemble
Walter Testolin, director

RossoPorpora Ensemble
is made up of young musicians who want to learn and retrieve the Italian and European Renaissance and Baroque repertoire through a philological study of historical documents and historically informed performance practice.

Since 2011 the group has the direction of Walter Testolin.

With a variable staff, the ensemble can deal with the sacred and secular repertoire to the real parts and the larger choral and instrumental repertoire. The group’s intention in also to recover the structure of music chapel of the Renaissance.

The ensemble has performed several programs: the oratorio “Membra Jesu Nostri” by D. Buxtehude, the ”Lecons de Tenebres pour le mercredi saint” by F. Couperin, many program with madrigals by composers such as Frescobaldi, Schutz, Marenzio, De Wert, Monteverdi and Gesualdo, a program focused on the European baroque choral repertoire with the ”Stabat Mater” by D. Scarlatti, the double choir motet ”Komm, Jesu, Komm” by J. S. Bach and Anthems by H. Purcell.

The ensemble has participated in several Italian festivals: Universi Diversi 2011 (Padova), Pavia Barocca 2012 (a project reserved for youth ensemble), Invaghite note 2012 (Turin), Cori a Palazzo 2012 (Mantua), Spazio & Musica 2012 (Vicenza).

The madrigal ensemble began in 2012, with the festival Spazio & Musica of Vicenza, a three-year project to study the development and dissemination of the madrigal in Italy between Renaissance and early Baroque.

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