Program: #22-38 Air Date: Sep 19, 2022
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The Cappella Mediterranea has a recent two-CD compilation of the complete madrigals for one and two voices by this composer who “broke the rules of counterpoint to express heightened emotion.”
NOTE: All of the music on this program comes from the recording Sigismondo d’India: Lamenti & Sospiri featuring the Cappella Mediterranea directed by Leonardo García Alarcón. It is on the Ricercar label and is number RIC 429.
Mariana Flores & Julie Roset, soprani
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo García Alarcón, harpsichord, organ and direction
Margaux Blanchard, viola da gamba
Marie Bournisien, harp
Quito Gato, théorbo and guitar
Mónica Pustilnik, archiluth
With Leonardo García Alarcón’s Cappella Mediterranea, Mariana Flores and the young soprano Julie Roset present a fascinating portrait of one of the greatest personalities in the history of music: Sigismondo d’India.
Leonardo García Alarcón writes: ‘Sigismondo d’India has a “twin”, a “mirror” in music: Claudio Monteverdi. Both men developed, in parallel, a style that radically changed the history of music. A style inherited from composers such as Luca Marenzio and Carlo Gesualdo, but which d’India and Monteverdi were to transform through the creation of new techniques, theorised by the latter in 1638 under the name seconda pratica, which consisted in breaking the rules of counterpoint in order to express heightened emotion. This is why I like to call Sigismondo d’India’s style “mannerist” – not in the sense of “mannered” as it is sometimes misinterpreted – so as to underline the crucial role played by composers like d’India and Monteverdi in effecting the transition between Renaissance and Baroque. Like the disegno artists of that period, who exaggerated the gesture and form of the Renaissance figure, like Michelangelo Buonarroti in his Sistine Chapel, Sigismondo d’India brings us back to a language, the fruit of the sophisticated reworking of a heritage.’
CD 1:
- Ardo, lassa, o non ardo? 4:25
- Piangono al pianger moi 5:17
- Mercè! grido piangendo 3:40
- Chi nudrisce tua speme 3:49
- Io viddi in terra angelici costumi 3:56
- Voi che ascoltate in rime sparse 3:39
- Dialogo della rosa 3:47
- Or che ‘l ciel e la terra 2:05
- Canzona cromatica 2:17
- Lamentatione d’Olympia 12:13
CD 2:
- Torna il sereno Zefiro 5:11
- Odi quel rosignolo 9:23
- Mentre che ‘l cor 4:22
- Pallidetta qual viola 2:01
- La tra ‘l sangue e le morti 3:31
- Sprezzami bionda e fuggimi 3:40
- Infelice Didone 12:10
Composer Info
Sigismondo d’India
CD Info
Ricercar label CD RIC 429