Philippe De Monte: Madrigals and Chansons Ratas del viejo Mundo

• Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603):
• 1Monte: S'io odo alcun felice, e lieto amante / Amor, che sol de i cor leggiadri ha cura04:29
• 2Monte: Sortez regretz et allegez mon cœur02:06
• 3Monte: Poi che 'l mio largo pianto02:26
• 4Monte: Oimè, che belle lacrime fur quelle03:38
• 5Monte: O triste ennuy, o fortune meschante06:27
• 6Monte: Domine Jesu Christe03:19
• 7Monte: Ombra son io, sepolto in queste pene03:00
• 8Monte: La grand' amour que mon las cœur vous porte03:48
• 9Monte: Se tropp'alto desir mi pung'il core / O beata colei, ch'al fin puo dire04:49
• 10Monte: Adoramus te Christe01:14
• 11Monte: Di dí in dí vo cangiando il viso e 'l pelo04:28
• 12Monte: Quando da gl'occhi del divin mio sole02:15
• 13Monte: Giunto m'à Amor fra belle et crude braccia02:04
• 14Monte: Alma ben nata se mi duol e dolse01:31
• 15Monte: Io son si vago de li miei sospiri02:14
• 16Monte: Se voi per me sentiste quel ch'io sento03:02
• Total Runtime50:50

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The year 2021 will mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of Philippe de Monte. This Flemish Renaissance master was one of the greatest composers of his generation. He held the prestigious position of Hofkapellmeister to the Imperial Court for thirty-five years, first in Vienna and then in Prague. He composed more music than any other composer during the second half of the sixteenth century, producing close to eight hundred works; these included secular and sacred madrigals; forty chansons, forty masses, two hundred and fifty motets, and a handful of other sacred works. His compositions were published and distributed in all the important musical centres of Europe; contemporary records show that they were performed from Lisbon to Danzig and from Naples to Dublin. Whilst he was much appreciated within contemporary professional circles throughout his career, the attention paid to him by musicologists and his resultant appreciation by today’s music lovers is not at all in proportion to the great reputation he enjoyed during his lifetime. This selection of madrigals, motets and chansons is a contribution to the restoration of his much-merited fame.

"All the voices are pleasant, and the individual singers take their solos well. The instruments blend with the voices and with one another, and the small dose of the guitar comes in just the right proportion to leave this listener, at least, charmingly sated." (Early Music Review)

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Ratas del viejo Mundo
The rodents of the old world — Ratas del viejo Mundo — travel the length and breadth of Europe to form their very own rat pack, coming together around songs, polyphony and instrumental music composed before 1650. The ensemble was formed in 2017 under the enthusiastic leadership of lutenist Floris De Rycker. Ratas del viejo Mundo finds freedom within an exceptionally sensual musical idiom, comparing period instrumental arrangements with partbooks for the same music.

The instrumentalists’ choices of tonalities and chord inversions contribute to that freedom, as do other options: whether to repeat some passages and omit others, to let a flurry of diminutions flash through slow and stately movements, to vary the rhythm, add and even omit parts… Different printed versions of the same arrangement sometimes contradict each other, whilst the tradition of musica ficta is branded deeply into lute tablature. The initial outstanding quality of the composition, however, is always preserved. In addition to consulting early repertoire transmitted in print or manuscript, Ratas del Viejo Mundo also draws on a wealth of popular, folk, ethnic, or oral traditions in its performances and recordings.

Concerts have takent Ratas del viejo Mundo to prestigious podia in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic, Austria, Norway and the United States. The ensemble has been artist in residence at Festival of Flanders, Alba Nova and Næstved Early Music Festival.

A high profile collaboration with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Hans Op de Beeck entitled Vlaemsch is currently in preparation; an international tour will follow. Ratas del Viejo Mundo’s recordings have received worldwide airplay and acclaim: ´The realisation of ultimate beauty requires the most powerful artistic and technical impulse imaginable. It's definitely in good hands with Ratas del viejo Mundo. [OpusKlassiek].

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