Benedetto Pallavicino: Madrigali

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Particularly impressive here is his engagement with Guarini’s texts, and the word painting is both subtle and musically satisfying. The singing from the six voices of Dalcantro is compelling... — Early Music Review, August 2013 More…

Release Date: 3rd Jun 2013
Catalogue No: PC10280
Label: Pan Classics
Length: 56 minutes

Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 6

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Io disleale? Ah cruda

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Era l'anima mia

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Cruda Amarilli

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 7

Work length2:55

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Una farfalla

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Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena: Fantasia No. 13

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Ugo Nastrucci

Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 8

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Negatemi pur, cruda

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 6

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Cor mio, deh non languire

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 7

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Io mi sento morir

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Terzi, G A: Libro de intavolatura, Book 2

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Ugo Nastrucci

Preludio

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 4

Work length3:05

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Occhi, un tempo mia vita

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 6

Work length2:36

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Ch'io non t'ami

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Terzi, G A: Balletto Alemanno

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Ugo Nastrucci

Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 6

Work length3:16

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Ahi, come a un vago sol

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Terzi, G A: Libro de intavolatura, Book 2

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Ugo Nastrucci

Fantasia

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 6

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Amor, io parto

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 5

Work length2:46

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

T'amo mia vita

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Terzi, G A: Ballo II Alemano

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Ugo Nastrucci

Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 8

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Libro di madrigali, Book 8: Deh, com'invan chiedete

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Pallavicino, B: Libro de madrigali, Book 7

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DaltroCanto
Dario Tabbia

Felice chi vi mira

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Benedetto Pallavicino is one of the foremost madrigal composers of his time. In 1596 he obtained the position of music director at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, towards which he had been striving for a long time – not exactly a cause for joy on the part of his competitor, Monteverdi, 20 years younger and also employed in Mantua. Pallavicino created a total of ten madrigal books for four to six voices, in which an orientation towards the 'modern' madrigal style can be detected from the fourth book onwards.

The ensemble Daltrocanto has selected 19 madrigals from these late madrigal books, based on texts by Giovanni Battista Guarini. His 'Rime' and especially 'Pastor Fido' are amongst the most beloved text sources for madrigals. The texts deal with love in all its facets and Pallavicino sets them with typical stylistic devices such as sharp dissonances and chromatic passages as well as homophonic blocks contrasting with flowing contrapuntal sections. The emotions contained in the poetry are rhetorically and expressively illuminated. Thus Pallavicino proves to be one of the pioneers in the development of the manner of rhetorical-expressive composition that was to culminate in Monteverdi's Seconda Prattica. Some ravishing singing from Alena Dantcheva…

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Early Music Review August 2013

Particularly impressive here is his engagement with Guarini’s texts, and the word painting is both subtle and musically satisfying. The singing from the six voices of Dalcantro is compelling and beautifully detailed, and the occasional lute accompaniment by Ugo Nastrucci are very tasteful and authentic.

13th July 2013

I strongly recommend this disc to any lover of the art of the late-renaissance madrigal...The text is treated with great care, through a precise articulation and effective dynamic shading. The singers show a perfect command of the idiom. The ensemble is very good

Benedetto Pallavicino: Madrigali

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