Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre

• Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652): Miserere:
• 1 Miserere: I. Miserere mei, Deus 02:39
• 2 Miserere: II. Tibi soli peccavi 02:59
• 3 Miserere: III. Auditui meo 02:45
• 4 Miserere: IV. Redde mihi laetitiam 02:56
• 5 Miserere: V. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium 04:01
• Luigi Rossi (1597 - 1653): Un allato messagier:
• 6 Un allato messagier 10:17
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Si dolce è 'l martire:
• 7 Si dolce è 'l martire 05:55
• Anonymous: Domine, ne in furore tuo:
• 8 Domine, ne in furore tuo: I. Domine in furore tuo 02:42
• 9 Domine, ne in furore tuo: II. Non est sanitas carni meae 04:30
• 10 Domine, ne in furore tuo: III. Adflictus sum 03:59
• Domenicho Mazzocchi (1592 - 1665): Breve è la vita nostra:
• 11 Breve è la vita nostra 02:48
• Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595 - 1679): La comica del cielo:
• 12 La comica del cielo: Sinfonia 03:01
• Marco Marazzoli (1602 - 1662): Chi fà:
• 13 Chi fà: I. Odimi, il passo arresta 00:56
• 14 Chi fà: II. Chi fà che ritorni 05:35
• Un sonno ohimè:
• 15 Un sonno ohimè 05:18
• Claudio Monteverdi: Maria, quid ploras:
• 16 Maria, quid ploras 03:27
• Claudio Monteverdi: Pascha concelebranda:
• 17 Pascha concelebranda: I. Pascha concelebranda 05:21
• 18 Pascha concelebranda: II. Nunc ubi est o mors Victoria 03:59
• Total Runtime 01:13:08

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Allegri’s Miserere, its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices: sheer Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed the piece, then jealously guarded by the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema.

From the Renaissance onwards, musicians dressed up the finest secular tunes of their time in sacred words. The most famous example of all, the Pianto della Madonna, in which Monteverdi transferred to the Virgin Mary the mournful strains of his Lamento d’Arianna, illustrates these exchanges between repertories. Similarly, his famous Sì dolce è ’l tormento is here transformed into Sì dolce è ’l martire with the help of the mysterious Virgilio Albanese. Other masters of the period, such as Rossi, Mazzocchi and Marazzoli, also adapted their works to sacred texts. With this programme, which builds on the experience of the album Nova Metamorfosi (ALPHA 039), one of Le Poème Harmonique’s major triumphs, Vincent Dumestre celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble.

Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, theorbe, direction

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