Album Summary
Notes & Reviews:
At the beginning of the 17th century, several collections of rather unusual madrigals appeared in northwestern Italy. The definition of this new musical genre was given by one of its major authors, Aquilino Coppini: "music drawn from madrigals and rendered spiritual." What actually happened was that a well-defined circle of writers and musicians ventured upon the feat of transforming some madrigals by replacing their original texts with lines of sacred verse in Latin. It was not a translation, as in some English versions of Italian madrigals, but an actual replacement of the text based on a completely different subject matter.
Notes & Reviews:Recording information: Velut Luna Preganziol (TV), Italy (05/2011).
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Works Details
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 4 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : O gloriose martyr, for 5 voices, SV 80/1.k (contrafacta of Che se tu se'il cor mio, SV 80/2) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Madrigals, Book 4 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : La piaga c'ho nel core, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 82 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : Rutilante in nocte, motet for 5 voices, SV 86.k (contrafacta of SV 86) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Piagn' e sospira, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 93 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 4 min. 29 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : Anima miseranda, for 5 voices, SV 90.k (contrafacta of Anima dolorosa, SV 90) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Qui laudes, motet for 5 voices, SV 87.k (contrafacta of SV 87) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Anima del cor mio, madrigal for 5 voices (from Book 4), SV 91 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Form: Choral
- Written: circa 1603
Monteverdi, Claudio : Ma se con la pietà non è in te spenta, madrigal for 5 voices (from Ecco Silvio), SV 97/2 - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 54 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
- Written: 1605
Monteverdi, Claudio : Te, Jesu Christe, liberator meus, motet for 5 voices, SV 97/4.k (contrafacta of SV 97/4) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Pulchrae sunt, motet for 5 voices, SV 97/5.k (contrafacta of SV 97/5) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 55 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Monteverdi, Claudio : Gloria tua, motet for 5 voices, SV 104.k (contrafacta of SV 104) - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Baroque
Gabrieli, Andrea : Bonum est, et suave amare Dominum, motet for 6 voices (contrafactum of "Sonno diletto e caro") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : Lucia sponsa Christi, motet for 6 voices (contrafactum of "La bella pargoletta") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 5 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : Ego flos campi, motet for 6 voices (contrafactum of "Se vuoi ch'io muoia") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : In tribulatione Dominum, motet for 6 voices (contrafactum of "Dolcissimo ben mio") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 44 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : Veni, o Iesu mi, motet for 6 voices (contrafactum of "Vieni, Flora gentil") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : Iesu dulcissime, motet for 5 voices (contrafactum of "Aminta mio gentil") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 2 min. 40 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance
Gabrieli, Andrea : Surge formosa mea amica, motet for 5 voices (contrafactum of "Caro dolce ben mio") - Conductor: Marco Gemmani
- Ensemble: I Cantori di San Marco
- Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
- Period Time: Renaissance


























