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Reviewer: Adrian
Horsewood
Luca Marenzio is, for many,
the purist’s madrigal composer: a prime exponent of the prima pratica
(before that upstart Monteverdi came along and broke all the rules), but
also receptive of and responsive to the latest compositional trends, his
works are perfectly formed and range from the light and frothy to the
wrought and chromatic. He was certainly the one composer in the genre whose
fame spread the farthest – the appearance of his music in the 1588 Musica
Transalpina, published in London, was hugely influential in sparking the
English craze for madrigals; and, had he lived longer (he died aged 45),
would undoubtedly now share in the wider renown enjoyed by Monteverdi and
Gesualdo.
The Italian madrigal
super-group La Compagnia del Madrigale won a Gramophone Award for their
recording of Marenzio’s first book of five-part madrigals, and now they turn
to one of the composer’s most innovative collections. While they have
illustrious forebears in this repertoire – most notably the Consort of
Musicke, Concerto Italiano and La Venexiana – this album sets a new standard
for madrigal performance. The singing is effortlessly serene and polished,
yet the voices can turn to harsh and anguished in a split second when the
text demands it; the balance (both in terms of volume and of importance of
the voices – the group credits no conductor and jointly produced the disc)
is ideal; and Glossa’s customary excellent engineering means that the
singers are captured beautifully.
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