Monteverdi: Il primo libro de madrigali, 1587 (1st Book of Madrigals) |
This page lists all recordings of Il primo libro de madrigali, 1587 (1st Book of Madrigals), by Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
Ex. VAT prices will be applied automatically for non-EU delivery addresses.
See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Monteverdi - Primo libro & nono libro dei madrigali
La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina To complete their masterful Monteverdi Edition, Claudio Cavina
and La Venexiana start at the beginning - the Madrigali a cinque
voci… Book One. Monteverdi's exploration of the madrigal art
form, was to occupy the composer for more than 50 years.
In approaching the Libro primo, published in 1587 when the
composer was barely 20 years old, yet demonstrably showing clear
evidence of to his approaching maturity, La Venexiana's
performances are faithful to Monteverdi's passion for the written word, above all to the weighty theme of
love. In this final release in the Monteverdi Edition Cavina adds a twist in the tail by including on this new CD
the madrigals from the posthumous Book nine put together by the composer's Venetian publisher. “This final volume of La Venexiana's superb complete edition brings together the beginning and the end of Monteverdi's madrigalian journey.
The key characteristic shared by the 20-year-old composer's five-part pieces and the posthumously published canzonettas is his ability to write music that seems to grow spontaneously out of the words. La Venexiana's perfectly enunciated singing does full justice to the meticulously placed gestures and anguished chromatic harmonies.” Elizabeth Roche, Daily Telegraph, 28th June 2008 “[La Venexiana] deliver what remains of [Book 9] with a wonderful sense of line, purity of tone, and instinct for colour and meaning, the quality of the music sometimes lets them down. If there is nothing in the first book to compare with the glories of the vocal writing that emerged over the next five decades, there's not too much in the ninth that's really out of the top drawer either.” The Guardian, 23rd May 2008 *** | 
| | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
|
|
| |  |
Delitiae Musicae, Marco Longhini "The delicious imagery, with its writhing chromatic harmonies, are performed with sure sensitivity in this Naxos release by the Italian singers and instrumentalists of Delito Musicae."
- Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, 21 October 2002 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
|
|
| |  | Monteverdi - Madrigals
The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
|
|
| |
|
Copyright © 2002-8 Presto Classical, all rights reserved.
Web site design and maintenance by Ferrer Consulting Ltd.
