L'Estro d'Orfeo - Altri canti d'amor (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

This debut CD of L'Estro d'Orfeo ensemble takes its title Altri Canti d'Amor from a madrigal found in Claudio Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals. The program focuses on the music of the Italian Seicento and more precisely on the schools of northern Italy; mainly the Venetian school. It combines both instrumental and vocal pieces - the latter in instrumental versions - connected to the subject of 'love'.

"Using instruments instead of the voice may initially seem perverse for such a title, but to me, it suggests the idea of "other ways of singing about love". We thus reaffirm the great value and importance that instruments started gaining in the first half of the 17th century, where they ceased serving merely as accompaniments to the voice and gradually became the main protagonist of the musical scene, attaining a level of virtuosity that had never been explored before." - Leonor de Lera

TRACKLIST
1. Claudio Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8, Canti Guerrieri: No. 1 Altri canti d’Amor, tenero arciero, SV 146
2. Biagio Marini: Sonata sopra "Fuggi dolente core", Op. 22 No. 1
3. Barbara Strozzi: Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op. 2: L’Eraclito Amoroso
4. Marco Uccellini: Sonate, correnti et arie, Op. 4: Aria No. 13 “Questa bella sirena”
5. Francesco Cavalli: Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne:, Act III, Scene 3: Aria “Lamento d’Apollo”
6. Tarquinio Merula: Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Op. 12: No. 20 Chiacona
7. Riccardo Rognoni: Ancor che col partire in A Minor
8. Francesco Cavalli: Musiche Sacre: No. 23 Canzon à 3
9. Marco Uccellini: Sonate over Canzoni, Op. 5: Sonata No. 9
10. Francesco Cavalli: La Calisto, Act II, Scene 1: Aria "Lucidissima Face"
11. Marco Uccellini: Sonate, arie et correnti, Op. 3: Aria Quarta sopra la Ciaccona à 3

PERSONNEL
L'Estro d'Orfeo
Leonor de Lera