Roberta Mameli & Luca Pianca - Anime Amanti (2017) [Official Digital Download 24/176]

A voice, a lute, a sigh. Nothing could be simpler and more immemorial. This expression of sentiments and emotions, of the intermittencies of the heart and the shadows of the soul, is of course as old as the world. Yet it was truly a reconquest of the Renaissance.

With Caccini, the ‘new music’ at once found a miraculous melodist. He composed a Euridice, performed in 1602, two years after Jacopo Peri’s setting and five years before Monteverdi’s Orfeo. The Renaissance did not know opera, but long secreted that genre soon to be born. And it is brand-new opera that opens and closes this recording, through the voice of its first visionary, Claudio Monteverdi. His Lamento d’Arianna, the centrepiece of a lost work, expresses sorrow, regrets, revolt through the very music of the Italian language, here brought to white heat. The ‘new music’ spread throughout Italy: Merula in Cremona, Falconieri in Naples, and Barbara Strozzi, the most famous woman composer of the age, in Venice. The Italian soprano Roberta Mameli is a great lover of this music, which she performs with an outstanding feeling for words and drama. Luca Pianca offers her his artistry and his great experience. Roberta Mameli is joining Alpha for several recordings, which will guide us towards other rarities and other periods.



Tracklist:
01. Il lamento di Arianna, SV 22
02. Le nuove musiche: No. 3, Dolcissimo sospiro
03. Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: No. 14, L'Eraclito amoroso
04. Selva morale e spiritual: No. 2, Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono, SV 253
05. Toccatta (Improvisation)
06. Allemanda la villega
07. Le nuove musiche: No. 22, Aria nona. Belle rose porporine
08. Le nuove musiche: No. 11, Dovrò dunque morire
09. Nuove musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle: No. 15, La bella man vi stringo
10. Ohimè ch'io cado, SV 316
11. Vorrei baciarti, o filli
12. Ricercata
13. Lamento di Didone
14. Scherzi musicali cioè arie et madrigali: IV. Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armato, SV 249
15. La soave melodia
16. Corrente
17. Le nuove musiche: No. 8, Amarilli, mia bella
18. Folle è bien che si crede
19. Primo libro di musiche da cantar solo: Ma che? Squallido e oscuro
20. L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308: Addio, Roma!

Composers:
Caccini, Giulio (c.1545-1618)
Falconieri, Andrea (1586-1656)
India, Sigismondo d' (c.1582-c.1629)
Merula, Tarquinio (c.1594-1665)
Monteverdi, Claudio Giovanni Antonio (1567-1643)
Pianca, Luca
Raimondi, Pietro Paolo (d.1647)
Strozzi, Barbara (1619-c.1677)

Personnel:
Roberta Mameli, soprano
Luca Pianca, lute