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Composer:
Claudio Monteverdi

Artist(s):
Le Poeme Harmonique

Conductor:
Vincent Dumestre

Background: 1565 marked the beginning of a musical revolution in Milan. Cardinal Carlo Borromeo, the city's archbishop, returned from Rome with the firm intention of enforcing the principles of the Counter-Reformation. The powerful Borromeo family thus aimed to ban secular music in Milan but Carlo's cousin Federico Borromeo soon realised the possibility of using the emotional and rhetorical powers of the secular madrigals for religious purpose, to induce in the listener a feeling of spiritual ecstasy.

Thus, he asked his musician Aquilino Coppini to present in sacred guise pieces from Monteverdi's Fourth and Fifth Books of Madrigals. The resulting motets were probably performed in Milan Cathedral from 1607 onwards. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Milan, thus became one of Italy's major cultural centres. This programme represents that important period of change in Milan, when secular compositions were transformed into pieces with a truly mystical feeling. It comprises a Mass by the former madrigalist Vincenzo Ruffo and sacred versions of secular works by Claudio Monteverdi.

CATALOGUE NR: ALPHA039
RECORD LABEL: Alpha
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Nov-2003

COMPOSER: Claudio Monteverdi  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Nova Metamorfosi
TRACKS: Confitemini Domino - Psalm. O gloriose mater (Coppini-Monteverdi). Kyrie Eleison (Ruffo). O infelix recessus (Coppini-Monteverdi) Gloria. Credo (Ruffo). O stellae coruscantes. Anima miseranda (Coppini-Monteverdi). Sanctus. Agnus Dei (Ruffo). O Iesu mea vita (Coppini-Monteverdi). Dixit Dominus - Psalm.
CONDUCTOR: Vincent Dumestre
ARTISTS: Le Poeme Harmonique      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Sacred music in Milan in the early seventeenth century

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