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Reviewer: Fabrice Fitch
Given his
renown as a composer of madrigals, it comes as a shock that Cipriano de Rore’s
discography is so skewed towards the sacred music. Graindelavoix’s typically
idiosyncratic recent survey (Glossa, 2/18) began to redress the balance, and
here are two new recordings entirely devoted to them. The selection from La
Compagnia del Madrigale is especially significant: it brings together a score of
his most famous settings, mostly from his wondrous late period. The sinuous but
chordal chromaticism of ‘Sebben il duol’ has a magical ring to it, foreshadowing
the later madrigalists while retaining the formal lucidity that characterises
his output. For me this is one of the standouts, but the entire collection is
perhaps the best introduction to Cipriano now available. At its best it equals
anything that has been done in this repertory by the other ensembles in which
these hugely experienced singers have sung: the tuning of the stately yet
intimate ‘Alma Susanna’ positively rings, and the formal severity of ‘O sonno’
is wonderfully legible. So fine is it that one regrets that the standard falls
sometimes just short of such heights: what might have been had the tuning in
‘Sebben il duol’ been just that bit truer, its transitions still more finely
staged? If Cipriano leaves his interpreters little |
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