Lettere Amorose / Magdalena Kozená, mezzo

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Album Summary

Performer

• Magdalena Kozená (Voice)

Conductor

• Pitzl, Pierre

Ensemble

• Private Musicke

Composers

• Filippo Vitali
• Giulio Caccini (1551 - 1618)
• Gaspar Sanz (1640 - 1710)
• Giovanni de Macque (circa 1548-1550 - 1614)
• Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (1626 - 1667)
• Sigismondo d'India (circa 1582 - 1629)
• Luis de Briçeño (fl. 16th Century)
• Biagio Marini (1584 - 1665)
• Giovanni Paolo Foscarini (15th Century - after 1640)
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
• Tarquinio Merula (circa 1594 - 1665)
• Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580 - 1651)
• Barbara Strozzi (1619 - 1664)

Notes & Reviews:

"The Czech mezzo... produces one of the loveliest sounds to be heard on the world's stages - a flowing, spring-water-like tone that evokes the term 'luminous'." (Opera News)

Magdalena Koená explores the early Italian Baroque music of Monteverdi and his contemporaries with rewarding results. Inspired by the improvisational nature of much of this music, Koená reveals yet another aspect of her musical personality. Teamed with the six string-instrumentalists and percussion of the acclaimed consort group Private Musicke, Magdalena Koená delivers an album in a fascinatingly different setting from any of her previous Baroque recordings. In music ranging from simple lamento to rollicking dance tunes, Magdalena Koená unleashes her refined vocal and expressive abilities to convey every nuance implicit in the music and the texts.

"She soars the heights and plumbs the depths with fitting ardour . . . it is hard not to be swept away by such intensely felt and highly dramatic readings . . . Pierre Pitzl -- a veritable Jimi Hendrix of the Baroque guitar -- and his crack instrumental ensemble enrich the spare simplicity of the written scores with endlessly varied and inventive realisations on bowed and plucked strings. These are vibrant, virtuoso performances, never slacking in their spontaneity and energy. With its plus recorded sound, this is a disc to wallow in." -BBC Music Magazine

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Potsdam, Nikolaisaal (09/2009-10/2009).

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Vitali, Filippo : O bei lumi, for voice & ensemble (Musiche a una e due voci, Book 2)

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Vocal

d'India, Sigismondo : Crud'Amarilli (from "Libro Primo de Madrigali a Cinque Voci)

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 9

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1624

Caccini, Giulio : Le nuove musiche

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Luis de Briçeño (fl. 16th Century) : Caravanda ciacona, for consort

• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 1 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Merula, Tarquinio : Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Op. 13

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 8 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Sanz, Gaspar : Canarios

• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1674

d'India, Sigismondo : Ma che? Squallido e oscuro, for voice

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Marini, Biagio : Con le stelle in ciel che mai

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus : Felici gl'animi, for voice & ensemble (from Libro quarto di villanelle)

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Macque, Giovanni de : Consonanze stravaganti, W 37

• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 1 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Kapsberger, Johannes Hieronymus : Aurilla mia, quando m'accese, for voice & ensemble (from Libro secondo di villanelle)

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

d'India, Sigismondo : Le musiche, book 5

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Foscarini, Giovanni Paolo : Capriccio sopra la Ciacona, for guitar

• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 1 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: by 1630

Strozzi, Barbara : Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 7 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Ribayaz, Lucas Ruiz de : Luz y norte musical

• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Merula, Tarquinio : Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Op. 13

• Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Voice)
• Conductor: Pierre Pitzl
• Ensemble: Private Musicke
• Running Time: 3 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque