CIPRIANO DE RORE

vieni, dolce imeneo

One and alla captivated by “il divino Cipriano”! Fierce polemics concerning music flared up around the turn of the seventeenth century, yet on one point, at least the adversaries involved were in agreement: a recognition of the merit and importance of the great Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore (1515-1565), unanimously considered amongst the great classic figures of the polyphonic art.

Zarlino and Artusi admired the rare stylistic “smoothness” of an excellent – and especially talented – pupil of Adrian Willaert. In him Monteverdi identified the stampo of an audacious innovator, capable of opening up hitherto unknown routes for the art of the madrigal. Finally, Bardi considered him as the sole modern polyphonist capable of re-establishing the legendary effectiveness of ancient Greek music.

This recorded anthology aims to highlight the later Cipriano – the one which fascinated Bardi and Monteverdi so compellingly.Vieni, dolce Imeneo serves as the album title here as a reflection of the ideal union between poetry and music: one of the distinctive features of Cipriano de Rore’s mastery.

(Marco Bizzarini)

CIPRIANO DE RORE | VIENI DOLCE IMENEO | GCD 922808
LA COMPAGNIA DEL MADRIGALE

Rossana Bertini, soprano
Francesca Cassinari, soprano
Elena Carzaniga, alto
Giuseppe Maletto, tenor
Raffaele Giordani, tenor
Daniele Carnovich, bass

with:

Paola Cialdella, mezzosoprano
Giulia Beatini, mezzosoprano
Massimo Lombardi, tenor
Dario Previato, bass
Efix Puleo, viella
Svetlana Fomina, viola da brazzo
Sabina Colonna Preti, viola da gamba

Production details

Total playing time: 69:27
Recorded in Cumiana (Torino, Italy)
in September 2017 and April 2018
Engineered by Giuseppe Maletto
Booklet essay by Marco Bizzarini
English – Français – Italiano – Deutsch

Track list:

1 Dalle belle contrade d’oriente
2 Candido e vago fiore
3 Mentre lumi maggior
4 Un altra volta la Germania strida
5 Poi che mi invita Amore
6 Non è lasso martire
7 Alcun non puo saper
8 Sebben il duol
9 Alma Susanna
10 O sonno
11 Di virtù, di costumi
12 Tra più beati e più sublimi cori
13 Convien ch’ovunque sia
14 Vieni, dolce Imeneo
15 Mia benigna fortuna
16 Volgi ’l tuo corso
17 Come la notte
18 L’alto signor
19 O morte, eterno fin