ENSEMBLE ARTE MUSICA/CERA,FRANCESCO - D'India: Musiche A Una E Due Voce (Sealed) (CD)

Sigismondo D'India (ca. 1580-1629) wrote his five volumes Musiche a una e due voce ("Music for one or two voices") in Turin, where he was head of chamber music at the court of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. In these plants D'India introduced the new style of monody, which in its simple one to two-part instrumentation in contrast to the to the usually four- or five-part madrigals The use of unusual intervals, who are moving with the greatest inventiveness, from a consonance to the next, depending on the meaning of the words, so that the songs have a greater effect in this way and May receive power to "move the feelings of the soul", as D'India himself wrote. The lyrics come from famous Poets of his time - Tasso, Marini and Guarini and are grateful templates for the dramatic musical language D'Indias. The recording presents the successful interpretations of one of the leading ensembles of the ancients the Italian music scene, the Ensemble Arte Musica, under the Conducted by the harpsichordist Francesco Cera. Its gripping The recording of Gesualdo's Tenebrae Responsoria is also published by Brilliant Classics. The booklet contains the complete Italian lyrics and their English lyrics Translation