Voces Suaves - L'arte Del Madrigale - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Eno 2. Purple Money 3. No Time to Wait 4. Woman with Candle 5. Tamburi Battenti 6. Nihao 7. Miserere 8. No Money 9. I Saw the Light 10. Green Lover 11. Iva LR 12. Fade to Black

Album Tracks 1. Nacht 2. Sonnenaufgang 3. Der Ansteig 4. Eintritt in Den Wald 5. Wanderung Neben Dem Bache 6. Am Wasserfall 7. Erscheinung 8. Auf Blumigen Wiesen 9. Auf Der Alm 10. Durch Dickicht Und Gestrüpp Auf Irrwegen 11. Auf Dem Gletscher 12. Gefahrvolle Augenblicke 13. Auf Dem Gipfel 14. Vision 15. Nebel Steigen Auf 16. Die Sonne Verdüstert Sich Allmählich 17. Elegie 18. Stille Vor Dem Sturm 19. Gewitter Und Sturm, Abstieg 20. Sonnenuntergang 21. Ausklang 22. Nacht

For it's sixth album on the Arcana tag, Voces Suaves presents a programme dedicated to one of the most influential composers of the seventeenth century, the great Giacomo Carissimi. The album features Carissimi's most famous work, the masterful oratorio Jephte, alongside two of his rarely performed virtuoso motets. It also includes the astonishingly theatrical Cristo smarrito by Domenico Mazzocchi, Carissimi's contemporary in Rome.The works on the album showcase the expressive power of Carissimi's musical language, as well as the remarkable virtuosity of the singers who originally performed his music. Instrumental interludes by Carissimi-found in the collection of his pupil Marc-Antoine Charpentier-have been interpolated into the score of Jephte, creating a unique version of the oratorio as it may have been performed in Rome during the composer's lifetime.