Altri Canti D'Amor: 17th Century Instrumental Works

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This is lovely music from a popular part of the baroque repertoire, and it receives sympathetically intimate playing from a group who achieve involving results by keeping their vocal and amorous... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

Release Date: 15th Sep 2017
Catalogue No: CC72760
Label: Challenge Classics
Length: 49 minutes

Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8, Canti Guerrieri: No. 1 Altri canti d’Amor, tenero arciero, SV 146

Work length3:35

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Marini, B: Sonata sopra "Fuggi dolente core", Op. 22 No. 1

Work length2:40

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Strozzi: Cantate, ariette, e duetti, Op. 2: L’Eraclito Amoroso

Work length6:07

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Josué Meléndez, Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Uccellini: Sonate, correnti et arie, Op. 4: Aria No. 13 “Questa bella sirena”

Work length3:27

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Cavalli: Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne:, Act III, Scene 3: Aria “Lamento d’Apollo”

Work length5:16

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Merula: Canzoni overo sonate concertate per chiesa e camera, Op. 12: No. 20 Chiacona

Work length3:52

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Riccardo Rognoni: Ancor che col partire in A Minor

Work length5:11

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Rodney Prada, Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Cavalli: Musiche Sacre: No. 23 Canzon à 3

Work length6:20

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Uccellini: Sonate over Canzoni, Op. 5: Sonata No. 9

Work length6:06

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Cavalli: La Calisto, Act II, Scene 1: Aria "Lucidissima Face"

Work length4:22

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

Uccellini: Sonate, arie et correnti, Op. 3: Aria Quarta sopra la Ciaccona à 3

Work length2:59

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Leonor de Lera
L'Estro d'Orfeo

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This debut CD of L'Estro d'Orfeo ensemble takes its title Altri Canti d'Amor from a madrigal found in Claudio Monteverdi's Eighth Book of Madrigals. The program focuses on the music of the Italian Seicento and more precisely on the schools of northern Italy; mainly the Venetian school. It combines both instrumental and vocal pieces - the latter in instrumental versions - connected to the subject of 'love'.

"Using instruments instead of the voice may initially seem perverse for such a title, but to me, it suggests the idea of "other ways of singing about love". We thus reaffirm the great value and importance that instruments started gaining in the first half of the 17th century, where they ceased serving merely as accompaniments to the voice and gradually became the main protagonist of the musical scene, attaining a level of virtuosity that had never been explored before." - Leonor de Lera

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December 2017

This is lovely music from a popular part of the baroque repertoire, and it receives sympathetically intimate playing from a group who achieve involving results by keeping their vocal and amorous inspirations in mind throughout…Certainly (and in a good way) I was left wanting more.

Early Music Today February 2018

Director Leonor de Lera’s nimble violin and Josué Meléndez’s silky-smooth cornetto – both instruments vaunted as the closest, expression-wise, to the human voice – soon make one forget the absence of a singer, and they are ably supported by violin, viola da gamba, chordophones and harpsichord in works by Marini, Merula, Uccellini, Rognoni, and Barbara Strozzi.

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