Allegri & Monteverdi: Anamorfosi Le Poème Harmonique & Vincent Dumestre

• Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652): Miserere:
• 1Miserere: I. Miserere mei, Deus02:39
• 2Miserere: II. Tibi soli peccavi02:59
• 3Miserere: III. Auditui meo02:45
• 4Miserere: IV. Redde mihi laetitiam02:56
• 5Miserere: V. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium04:01
• Luigi Rossi (1597 - 1653): Un allato messagier:
• 6Un allato messagier10:17
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643): Si dolce è 'l martire:
• 7Si dolce è 'l martire05:55
• Anonymous: Domine, ne in furore tuo:
• 8Domine, ne in furore tuo: I. Domine in furore tuo02:42
• 9Domine, ne in furore tuo: II. Non est sanitas carni meae04:30
• 10Domine, ne in furore tuo: III. Adflictus sum03:59
• Domenicho Mazzocchi (1592 - 1665): Breve è la vita nostra:
• 11Breve è la vita nostra02:48
• Antonio Maria Abbatini (1595 - 1679): La comica del cielo:
• 12La comica del cielo: Sinfonia03:01
• Marco Marazzoli (1602 - 1662): Chi fà:
• 13Chi fà: I. Odimi, il passo arresta00:56
• 14Chi fà: II. Chi fà che ritorni05:35
• Un sonno ohimè:
• 15Un sonno ohimè05:18
• Claudio Monteverdi: Maria, quid ploras:
• 16Maria, quid ploras03:27
• Claudio Monteverdi: Pascha concelebranda:
• 17Pascha concelebranda: I. Pascha concelebranda05:21
• 18Pascha concelebranda: II. Nunc ubi est o mors Victoria03:59
• Total Runtime01:13:08

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Allegri’s Miserere, its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices: sheer Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed the piece, then jealously guarded by the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema.

From the Renaissance onwards, musicians dressed up the finest secular tunes of their time in sacred words. The most famous example of all, the Pianto della Madonna, in which Monteverdi transferred to the Virgin Mary the mournful strains of his Lamento d’Arianna, illustrates these exchanges between repertories. Similarly, his famous Sì dolce è ’l tormento is here transformed into Sì dolce è ’l martire with the help of the mysterious Virgilio Albanese. Other masters of the period, such as Rossi, Mazzocchi and Marazzoli, also adapted their works to sacred texts. With this programme, which builds on the experience of the album Nova Metamorfosi (ALPHA 039), one of Le Poème Harmonique’s major triumphs, Vincent Dumestre celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble.

Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, theorbe, direction

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