With Vieni, dolce Imeneo, La Compagnia del Madrigale make another important halt on their compelling journey across the territory of Italian secular song with a disc devoted to one of the most significant, yet these days somewhat bypassed, composers: Cipriano de Rore. De Rore was a Fleming who enjoyed great success notably in the Italian courts of Ferrara and Parma – but with a prestige which extended up and across Europe. He composed in many genres, but it is the secular madrigal – recorded here – where his skill was most valued, for example in creating extended and expressive melodic lines coupled with innovatory pre-echoes of the seconda pratica so triumphantly expressed – albeit amidst great criticism – by Claudio Monteverdi.
Recordings – all also on Glossa – of madrigals by Marenzio, Gesualdo and Monteverdi have already demonstrated musical pleasures such as an uncommon vocal blend and delicacy, and a meticulous dynamic control exhibited by the richly-experienced members of La Compagnia del Madrigale, and those delights are to be experienced with these 19 madrigals by Cipriano de Rore, composed late in his career.
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Tracklisting:
- Dalle belle contrade d’oriente
- Candido e vago fiore
- Mentre lumi maggior
- Un’altra volta la Germania strida
- Poi che mi invita Amore
- Non è lasso martire
- Alcun non può saper
- Sebben il duol
- Alma Susanna
- O sonno
- Di virtù, di costumi
- Tra più beati e più sublimi cori
- Convien ch’ovunque sia
- Vieni, dolce Imeneo
- Mia benigna fortuna
- Volgi ’l tuo corso
- Come la notte
- L’alto signor
- O morte, eterno fin
