Songs Complete
CD
RRP £20.30 historic list price — see live Amazon pricing below
- Performers
- Monica Piccinini; Roberto Abbondanza; Alda Caiello; Elisabetta Pallucchi; Filippo Farinelli
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Discs
- 2
- Barcode
- 9786316160904
Heres a set unique on record: Dallapiccolas song cycles with small ensemble, mostly based on ancient and medieval texts are wellknown as a cornerstone of his reputation for the kind of lyrical modernism which flowered in the work of Nono and Berio from the following generation. Like other Italian modernists such as Bruno Maderna, he was no less passionately interested in his cultural heritage represented here by the earlyBaroque composers who developed the idea and practice of opera, such as Monteverdi, and Cavalli. He made practical editions for modern performance of many Baroque songs in order to disseminate this music at the time when scholarly interest was just beginning to move beyond academic confines into concert halls and recording studios, at the birth of the historically informed performance movement. As the pianist Filippo Farinelli remarks in the bookletnote, ""This is a repertoire that merits a place alongside Brittens arrangements of Purcell and other famous English composers. Dallapiccola did much more than realise the basso continuo part. Thanks to his musicological studies, his unique artistic taste and his understanding of the great composers of the early 20th century, he was able to breathe new life into early music, allowing listeners to perceive it in fresh, new terms that ring entirely true."" Alongside these two volumes of songs by Caccini, Stradella, Frescobaldi and more are placed the two song cycles he conceived for voice and piano accomapaniment. Bo
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