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Emilio Cavalieri – Lamentations

10 in Répertoire
‘Diapason d’Or’ in Diapason
Recommended by Classica
Nominated for the Victoires de la Musique 2001
Fondation Cini Award for vocal music
‘Entre os melhores de 2001’ in Público (Portugal)

Emilio de’ Cavalieri, appointed as a musician to Ferdinand de Medici, was one of the most important figures in late sixteenth-century Rome. An influential and ingenious composer, he is known as the inventor of monody, which replaced the polyphonic style with a type of singing that more closely resembled human expression. Cavalieri’s Lamentations, one of his last works, is probably the most original sacred work of the late sixteenth century. It uses the stile rappresentativo for the first time in the history of sacred music. The chromatic passages, unusual harmonic relationships and the use of a solo voice to which the choir responds, combine to lend the Lamentations an expressivity and pathetic quality that were otherwise completely unknown in the late sixteenth century.

Cast:
Claire Lefilliâtre, Raphaële Kennedy sopranos
Damien Guillon countertenor
Jean-François Lombard, François Piolino tenors
Arnaud Marzorati bass
Sophie Watillon, Kaori Uemura treble viols
Sylvie Moquet, Anne-Marie Lasla bass viols
Françoise Enock violone
Laurent Stewart organ
Jean-Luc Tamby cetterone
Vincent Dumestre theorbo; conductor

Programme:
In te Domine speravi, Anonymous
Prima die Lectio prima, Repons : Eram quasi agnus, Prima die Lectio secunda, Repons : Una hora, Secunda die Lectio prima, Repons : Caligaverunt oculi mei, Emilio de’ Cavalieri
Miserere mei Deus, Fabrizio Dentice
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