Virgin Classics Full Price CD, 60 Minutes
Un Concert pour Mazarin: Italian music in 17th-century French manuscript collections
Cazzatti: Acclamate de terra Frescobaldi: Capriccio Anon: Bienheureuse est une âme Foggia: O quam clemens Anon: Madre, non mi far monaca Turini Sonata a tre sopra la Monica Roberday: Fugue à quatre parties sur un sujet italien Monteverdi: Sancta Maria Viadana: Canzon per cornetto e violino in risposta Cima: Surge, propera, amica mea Fontei: Laudate pueri Cazzatti: Capriccio e ciaccona Rossi: Passacaille pour le clavecin Bassani: In caligine umbrosa
Two of the major figures of seventeenth-century France came from Italy: Marie de’ Medici and Cardinal Mazarin, and the enormous impact of Italian musical culture in France was in part due to Mazarin’s deliberate policy to introduce Italian musicians to the French court. This recording is the result of personal research by Jean Tubéry, who directs the instrumentalists of Ensemble La Fenice and the outstanding young French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky in a rich selection of the Italian or Italian-influenced vocal and instrumental works that shaped the music of the Grand Siècle.
