驚異の美しさ!
カプスベルガーの声楽曲
テオルボの名手として名を残しているカプスベルガーによる、声楽作品集の登場。
カプスベルガーは、ドイツ人の両親のもと、ヴェネツィアに生まれました。彼はその生涯をほぼイタリアで過ごしました。結婚してローマにうつり、テオルボの名手として名を馳せ、上流階級の人々のサークルで演奏していました。ローマでは「Il Tedesco(イタリア語で、"ドイツ人"の意)」とも呼ばれておりました。彼はテデスコの名手でしたが、美しい声の持ち主でもあり、彼の最初の出版楽譜はマドリガーレ(1608/09)でした。これは今でも演奏される機会がきわめて少ないですが、テキストの詩情に見事に音楽が融合された作品ばかり。レスカドロン・ヴォラン・ド・ラ・レーヌの面々が、詩情ゆたかに奏でています。声楽作品の合間に収録された器楽曲も、どれも絶品です。L'Escadron Volant de la Reine(女王の飛行中隊)とはカトリーヌ・ド・メディチスが採用した侍女たちを指します。彼女たちは、ヨーロッパの他の宮廷との関係性を、会話など、彼女たちの存在そのものによって和らげる役割をになっていました。このアンサンブルも、彼女たちのように、ヒエラルキーなく、音楽活動を展開できることをめざして、アントワーヌ・トゥシェが中心となり、2012年1月に結成されました。様々な音楽祭に登場するなど、古楽シーンで重要かつ貴重な存在感を放っています。
キングインターナショナル
発売・販売元 提供資料(2021/08/19)
Composer and theorbo virtuoso Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger was an immensely popular figure in Rome in the early 17th century, a favorite of the powerful Barberini family but also an ally of Galileo Galilei, which caused him trouble for a time. In Italy, he was called Il Tedesco (the German), but when he was sent to Austria for school, he was called Italus. Nowadays, he is best known for his instrumental music, but this fine release from the ensemble LEscadron Volant de la Reine offers a more detailed appreciation of his output. The groups name means The Flying Squadron of the Queen, and it refers to actual people of the time, ladies-in-waiting of Catherine de Medici, who served as her agents. Kapsbergers interaction with cultural currents of his time is reason enough to get better acquainted with his music, and here, one gets a survey of his works in various genres and from various phases of his career. There are Italian madrigals, at first in the polyphonic style of the 16th century; later, he mastered the vast innovations of Monteverdi. There are secular pieces in the lighter villanella genre and similar styles, which were state-of-the-art stuff at the time. The listener will come to understand Kapsbergers fame as an instrumentalist by hearing zippy works like the Colascione. All thats missing is an example of Kapsbergers sacred music, which for some reason was said to have incensed the singers of the Sistine Chapel Choir so much that they refused to perform it, but this is a minor complaint, for the performances here are excellent -- lively, direct, and with a real sense of the texts, which are well translated in the booklet. The church sound is a bit remote for what the performers are trying to do, but its clear enough. All in all, this is a release that will substantially broaden listeners understanding of the early Baroque and is a great deal of fun besides.
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