Madrigali Libro

Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libro IX (2017)

Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libro IX (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:56:59 | 272 Mb
Classical, Choral | Label: Brilliant Classics

With this recording the acclaimed ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, led by director Krijn Koetsveld, have at last completed a monumental undertaking nearly a decade in the making: the complete cycle of Claudio Monteverdi’s books of madrigals. Fittingly, the last instalment in this series is the final Ninth Book (Libro IX), which was published posthumously in 1651 and looks back on the breadth of the composer’s career with lighter pieces in the established forms of his day (prima prattica), in Monteverdi’s own innovative style (seconda prattica), and in a new genre that had begun to eclipse the madrigal in Monteverdi’s twilight years.
Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali Libro VIII (2017)

Le Nuove Musiche & Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali Libro VIII
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 163:36 min | 773 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics | Tracks: 36 | Rls.date: 2017

Le Nuove Musiche, led by acclaimed director Krijn Koetsveld, continue with their exceptional series of Claudio Monteverdi’s complete madrigals. This time they turn their attention to Book VIII, the intriguingly entitled Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi ('Madrigals of Love and War'), published four years after Monteverdi's death.
Le Nuove Musiche, Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libro IX (2017)

Le Nuove Musiche, Krijn Koetsveld - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libro IX (2017)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:56:49 | 130 MB
Label: Brilliant Classics

With this recording the acclaimed ensemble Le Nuove Musiche, led by director Krijn Koetsveld, have at last completed a monumental undertaking nearly a decade in the making: the complete cycle of Claudio Monteverdi’s books of madrigals. Fittingly, the last instalment in this series is the final Ninth Book (Libro IX), which was published posthumously in 1651 and looks back on the breadth of the composer’s career with lighter pieces in the established forms of his day (prima prattica), in Monteverdi’s own innovative style (seconda prattica), and in a new genre that had begun to eclipse the madrigal in Monteverdi’s twilight years.
Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Gesualdo: Madrigali. Libri Primo & Secondo (2019)

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Gesualdo: Madrigali. Libri Primo & Secondo (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 81:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | HAF 8905307.08 | Recorded: 2019

Having thoroughly explored the madrigals of Monteverdi, Paul Agnew returns to the genre, this time focusing on the work of Gesualdo, whose mastery of chromaticism and dissonance eventually turned these expressive devices into a defining feature of his musical style. A fascinating repertoire that Paul Agnew and his team delight in offering here.
Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali. Libri terzo & quarto (2021)

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali. Libri terzo & quarto (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 437 Mb | Total time: 97:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HAF 8905309.10 | Recorded: 2019, 2020

Following the acclaim which met their 2-CD set devoted to the first two books of Gesualdo's madrigals (2020 Gramophone Award), Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants now focus on the composer's Ferrara period. Books III and IV mark a turning point in Gesualdo's output. The murderous prince's inner demons seem to be reflected in the heightened expressiveness of these madrigals, whose reliance on chromaticism and dissonance was so far ahead of it's time that it's like would not be heard again until centuries later.
Harry van der Kamp, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali Libri I - III (2005)

Harry van der Kamp, Gesualdo Consort Amsterdam - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali Libri I - III (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 598 Mb | Total time: 142:53 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CPO | # 777 138-2 | Recorded: 2001, 2002

When you want music filled to the brim with despair and death, Carlo Gesualdo is the composer you want. Consider opening lines like those of the first four of his third collection of madrigals: "You want me to die," "Whether I die or not," "Alas, life of despair," and "I languish and die": even Dowland and Shostakovich are cheerier than Gesualdo. But, however dark his texts, it cannot be denied that Gesualdo set them with absolute fidelity and utmost sincerity. His lines are twisted, his harmonies are tortured, and his counterpoint is agonizing, but they suit his morbid and morose texts like George Gershwin's music fit his brother Ira.
Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto (2023)

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Carlo Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 581 Mb | Total time: 02:18:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HAF8905311.12 | Recorded: 2020, 2022

Fully integrated with the musical line, the singers avoid melodrama through intimate, small gestures as if acting for screen, not stage.’ Gramophone Critics' Choice 2021 Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants conclude their exploration of this fascinating corpus. Even more than in his first books, Gesualdo here displays incredible modernity, playing in inimitable fashion on dissonances and chromaticisms. Love and death, joys and sorrows embrace and clash amid ever bolder harmonies.
Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto (2023)

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants - Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libri Quinto & Sesto (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 581 Mb | Total time: 02:18:28 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HAF8905311.12 | Recorded: 2020, 2022

Fully integrated with the musical line, the singers avoid melodrama through intimate, small gestures as if acting for screen, not stage.’ Gramophone Critics' Choice 2021 Paul Agnew and Les Arts Florissants conclude their exploration of this fascinating corpus. Even more than in his first books, Gesualdo here displays incredible modernity, playing in inimitable fashion on dissonances and chromaticisms. Love and death, joys and sorrows embrace and clash amid ever bolder harmonies.
Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali (2022)

Collegium Vocale Gent & Philippe Herreweghe - Monteverdi: Il quarto libro de madrigali (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 224 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 132 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:57:08
Classical, Choral | Label: Phi, Outhere Music

Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, published in 1603 after an eleven-year gestation, bears witness to the metamorphosis of the madrigal and the rapid evolution of music at the turn of the two centuries. It is also a model of the genre and may be regarded as one of the most innovative and emblematic of its composer’s style.
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono (2023)

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano - Monteverdi: Madrigali, Libri primo e nono (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:19:02 | 182 / 352 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: naïve

Conductor and harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini is an innovative interpreter of Italian Baroque opera and instrumental music. As the director of his own ensemble, Concerto Italiano, he has brought dramatic, opera-influenced readings to a variety of Baroque works from Italy and beyond. Alessandrini was born in Rome on January 25, 1960. He was relatively late in beginning his musical studies, taking up the piano at age 14. Four years later, he discovered the harpsichord and traveled to the Netherlands for lessons with Ton Koopman at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. He was soon giving concerts on the harpsichord. Alessandrini founded Concerto Italiano in 1984. He also played the organ, and his first recording, a performance of Girolamo Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali collection, was on that instrument.