Una poesia muta. Art in Early Cinquecento Venice The Marian Consort

• Josquin Desprez (1450/55 - 1521): O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu:
• 1 Desprez: O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu 04:14
• Alexander Demophon Venetus (1480 - 1500): Volgi gli occhi:
• 2 Venetus: Volgi gli occhi 01:47
• Jean l'Héritier (1480 - 1551): Ave Domina mea:
• 3 l'Héritier: Ave Domina mea 03:32
• Antonio Caprioli (1425 - 1475): Non si vedra gia mai:
• 4 Caprioli: Non si vedra gia mai 03:43
• Costanzo Festa (1485/90 - 1545): Nunc dimittis:
• 5 Festa: Nunc dimittis 04:44
• Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria (Arr. for Lute by Francesco Spinacino):
• 6 Desprez: Ave Maria (Arr. for Lute by Francesco Spinacino) 03:10
• Adrian Willaert (1490 - 1562): Beatus Stephanus:
• 7 Willaert: Beatus Stephanus 07:00
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino (1470 - 1535): Ave Maria, regina in cielo:
• 8 Tromboncino: Ave Maria, regina in cielo 03:52
• Jean Mouton (1459 - 1522): Ave virgo caeli porta:
• 9 Mouton: Ave virgo caeli porta 01:51
• Bartolomeo Tromboncino, Franciscus Bossinensis: Ricercar 2 / Suspir io temo:
• 10 Tromboncino, Bossinensis: Ricercar 2 / Suspir io temo 03:34
• Costanzo Festa: Ab oriente venerunt Magi:
• 11 Festa: Ab oriente venerunt Magi 05:20
• Vincenzo Capirola (1474 - after 1548): Ricercar 8:
• 12 Capirola: Ricercar 8 01:24
• Innocentius Dammonis: Adoramus te:
• 13 Dammonis: Adoramus te 03:01
• Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange lingua:
• 14 Desprez: Missa Pange lingua: II. Gloria 04:59
• Jean Mouton: Corde et animo:
• 15 Mouton: Corde et animo 03:23
• Adrian Willaert: Pater noster & Ave Maria:
• 16 Willaert: Pater noster & Ave Maria 08:54
• Total Runtime 01:04:28

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Una poesia muta: Art in early Cinquecento Venice is the result of a collaboration between SWR radio, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and The Marian Consort. Specially curated by the Stuttgart museum, Germany’s first ever exhibition devoted to Vittore Carpaccio and his contemporaries has inspired The Marian Consort to devise an album to accompany this artistic journey.

Being one of the most prominent painters of the Early Renaissance in Venice, Carpaccio is likely to have been acquainted with the music and the composers recorded here, since all have strong links to the city at that time. If some of them are well-known today – Josquin, Jean Mouton, Adrian Willaert – others deserve wider recognition. The Marian Consort and its director Rory McCleery have assembled a typically fascinating programme, matched with superb singing.

The Marian Consort
Rory McCleery, conductor

The Marian Consort
is a vocal ensemble that presents bold and thrilling performances across the UK, Europe and North America. Led by founder and director, Rory McCleery, the group is composed of the very best singers in a flexible, intimate ensemble, allowing clarity of texture and subtlety of interpretation that illuminates the music for performer and audience alike. TMC features regularly on BBC Radio 3, and has released eleven recordings to critical acclaim, praised for ‘precision and pellucid textures’ (The Times).

The Marian Consort performs music from the fifteenth century to the present day, with a focus on bringing to light and championing lesser-known works by composers such as Vicente Lusitano, Raffaella Aleotti, and Jean Maillard. New music is of vital importance to TMC, and in recent years it has commissioned Dani Howard, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gabriel Jackson, Donna McKevitt, and Ben Rowarth. TMC regularly collaborates with ensembles, including the Carducci Quartet, Berkeley Ensemble, and Illryia Consort.

The Marian Consort is a pioneer of projects which move beyond the confines of the traditional concert, most notably ‘Breaking the Rules’, a staged concert-drama based on the life and crimes of Carlo Gesualdo called ‘daring and vivid’ by The Guardian. Other highlights include performances in the Bascule Chamber underneath London’s Tower Bridge; the premiere of Dani Howard’s ‘Unbound’ at Three Choirs Festival; and a Wigmore Hall recital presented in partnership with BBC Radio 3. The Marian Consort will make its debut tour of Japan in 2023.

Rory McCleery
is the founder and Artistic Director of The Marian Consort and has conducted the ensemble in concert across the UK, Europe and North America. Under his direction, The Marian Consort has recorded extensively and become renowned internationally for its compelling interpretations of a wide range of repertoire, particularly the music of the Renaissance and early Baroque, and works by contemporary British composers, and in 2017 was nominated for a Gramophone Award.

Rory began his musical training as a chorister at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, subsequently reading music at St Peter’s College, Oxford where he was both Organ and Domus Academic scholar before completing an MSt in Musicology with Distinction at The Queen’s College, Oxford.

He is much in demand as a guest conductor, choral consultant and workshop leader, and has led workshop sessions, study days and singing courses across the UK, Germany, Spain and the USA, working with choirs of all ages and sizes in repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. A vocal advocate for the music of the Renaissance to all audiences, Rory has written articles for both specialist academic publications and broadsheet newspapers, and appears regularly on BBC Radio 3.

Rory is also active as a countertenor, performing at venues including the NOSPR in Katowice, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the Concertgebouw Bruges, and the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. He has appeared as a soloist for broadcasts on ARTE, Radio France, BBC Radio 3 and German, Italian and Polish national radio, and in concert and recording with The Monteverdi Choir, La Nuova Musica, The Dunedin Consort, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and The Berkeley Ensemble among others. Rory has a particular affinity for new music: he features on The Night With’s recent award-winning album release, and will shortly premiere a major new work from Graham Fitkin for countertenor soloist, orchestra and chorus.

Rory is a passionate believer in the importance of music education and singing for young people and is co-founder with his wife, harpist Rachel Wick, of Dunster Festival in West Somerset.

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