Alessandro Grandi: Motetti

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This new recording strikes me as being dedicated, earnest, and sweet-sounding, but I think there is more room for passion and drama. Grandi shines through every performance on every disc. Each... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 26th Jul 2019
Catalogue No: A464
Label: Arcana
Length: 62 minutes

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Grandi: O quam tu pulchra es

Work length3:21

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Renato Cadel, Leo Moreno, Roberto Rilievi, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Plorabo die ac nocte

Work length6:21

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Roberto Rilievi, Alice Rossi, Maximiliano Baños, Laura Martinez Boj, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Lilia

Work length2:27

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Laura Martinez Boj, Roberto Rilievi, Alice Rossi, Riccardo Pisani, UtFaSol Ensemble, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: In semita

Work length2:49

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Riccardo Pisani, Roberto Rilievi, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: O bone Jesu

Work length3:02

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Riccardo Pisani, Roberto Rilievi, Sophia Patsi, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Date nomini ejus

Work length5:13

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Riccardo Pisani, Renato Cadel, Roberto Rilievi, Maximiliano Baños, UtFaSol Ensemble, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Heu mihi - Dialogo à 4

Work length4:47

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Riccardo Pisani, Alice Rossi, Roberto Rilievi, Maximiliano Baños, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Salvum me fac, Deus

Work length3:49

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Roberto Rilievi, Sophia Patsi, Alice Rossi, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Bone Jesu verbum patris

Work length5:30

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Roberto Rilievi, Laura Martinez Boj, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, UtFaSol Ensemble, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Domine ne in furore tuo

Work length3:55

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Roberto Rilievi, Renato Cadel, Maximiliano Baños, Laura Martinez Boj, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Surge propera amica mia

Work length3:45

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Renato Cadel, Laura Martinez Boj, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Factum est silentium

Work length3:15

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Roberto Rilievi, Renato Cadel, Sophia Patsi, Laura Martinez Boj, UtFaSol Ensemble, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Vidi spetiosam

Work length3:07

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Riccardo Pisani, Alice Rossi, Roberto Rilievi, Maximiliano Baños, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Veniat dilectus meus

Work length4:26

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Roberto Rilievi, Renato Cadel, Sophia Patsi, Laura Martinez Boj, Alessandra Rossi Lürig, Accademia d'Arcadia

Grandi: Nisi Dominus

Work length6:45

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Alessandra Rossi Lürig, UtFaSol Ensemble, Accademia d'Arcadia

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Alessandro Grandi (born in Venice in 1590), regarded by scholars as “the greatest motet composer of his time”, was a prominent figure of the new Venetian style in the first half of the seventeenth century. An extremely precocious talent, he was considered by his contemporaries equal to Claudio Monteverdi, to whom he was appointed deputy in 1627 in Saint Mark’s Basilica. Yet our knowledge of his life and musical output is scanty, and thus he has remained mostly undiscovered.

“Celesti fiori” (celestial flowers), a title taken from his Fifth Book of Motets, is the first complete monograph recording dedicated to this important composer. It consists of a selection of works, almost all recorded here for the first time, chosen from his books of motets, all published between 1610 and 1630, the year in which he was killed by the plague, along with his large family.

Recorded in the extraordinary acoustics of the Basilica di Santa Barbara in Mantua, where Monteverdi worked during his long stay in the city, this project features the splendid voices of the Accademia d’Arcadia, an ensemble recently founded in 2018 for the purpose of performing Italian music of the seventeenth century.

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January/February 2020

This new recording strikes me as being dedicated, earnest, and sweet-sounding, but I think there is more room for passion and drama. Grandi shines through every performance on every disc. Each rediscovered piece brought before the public is a priceless gift which can only add to his growing fame.

October 2019

Grandi gives performers more than enough to sink their teeth into, and Accademia d’Arcadia and Ensemble UtFaSol respond enthusiastically. Each piece has something different to say about its materials…Grandi’s technical fluency matches his inspiration…truly, this is early music…for people who think they don’t like early music.

28th July 2019

These 15 sacred motets show a fecund creativity, and Rossi Lürig’s musicians immerse themselves stylishly in his alluringly expressive, dramatic sound world.

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