HOPKINSON SMITH Chansons & Frottole CD
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| Artist: | Hopkinson Smith |
| Title: | Hopkinson Smith Chansons & Frottole CD |
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| Format: | CD |
| Country | US |
| Barcode: | 3700187686734 |
| SKU: | VI-189935 |
| Condition: | NEW |
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The French and Italian Renaissance song repertoire, immortalised during the first three decades of the sixteenth century by the printed editions of Pierre Attaingnant in Paris and Ottaviano Petrucci in Venice, invites audiences, and in former times performers, to immerse themselves in a world in which memories of medieval courtly poetry, the austerity (as reimagined in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries) of ancient lamentations, and a fully polyphonic narrative style, were all collided and superimposed-a certain sense of conversation can remind us also of the French air de cour as well as the early Italian madrigal form. These chansons and frottole give rise to discrete, almost enigmatic emotions, where music and text unite as one, transparent and restrained.Guided by the subtle sound of Hopkinson Smith's lute, the diaphanous voice of German soprano Sophie Klussmann roams over this little-known early Renaissance territory through four sections which take the form of return journeys between France and Italy. The sly melancholy of songs by Claude de Sermisy (Puisqu'en amours) and other French contemporary figures, some of them settings of poems by Clement Marot, thus collides with more plaintive pieces, by Marchetto Cara (Io non compro piu speranza) and Bartolomeo Tromboncino, whose supplicatory Per dolor me bagno il viso and final, heady Dolermi sempre voglio both attain peaks of intensity, at the same time being two sumptuous examples of the frottola form. During these sixty minutes, Sophie Klussmann produces exquisitely subtle and precious wisps of sound, recalling that the heart and soul of these snapshots very often remains the matter of love. Her dark gold timbre hints at the eternal in the one piece in the programme whose text is of a religious nature, the sublime, questioning prayer Se mai per maraveglia.
1 A Mes Ennuyz
2 Jouissance Vous Donneray
3 Amy, Souffrés
4 Dont Vient Cela
5 Tant Que Vivrai
6 Recercar VI
7 Se Mai Per Maraveglia
8 Ostinato Vo' Seguire
9 S'io Sedo a L'ombra
10 Poi Che Volse la Mia Stella
11 Io Non Compro Più Speranza
12 Est Jour
13 Puisqu'en Amours
14 Jaulne Et Bleu
15 Cueur Est Mien
16 Dolent Depart
17 De Toy Me Plaintz
18 Poiché Speranza È Morta
19 Per Fuggir D'amor Le Punte
20 Che Farala Che Dirala
21 Ala Guerra
22 Per Dolor Me Bagno Il Viso
23 Starala Ben Cussi?
24 Dolermi Sempre Voglio
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