Los Músicos de Su Alteza, Olalla Alemán, Luis Antonio González - Qvid est Veritas (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

This album contains a collection of works from the Seicento, most of them well known and recorded several times, although it also includes a composition (Cazzati’s La Verità sprezzata) that is little or not very often heard. It is a repertoire to which we have usually devoted ourselves. That is why we wanted to propose our own way of doing it, in all honesty and avoiding fashions and artifice, without pretentiousness, respecting only the rhetorical —and dramatic— discourse implicit in the texts and their setting to music, fleeing from affectation —but not from affetti— and unquestioned customs, taking advantage of the information provided by musicological research, making use of our intuition and experience, and also remembering the teaching we have received from our old masters. Inspired by Ripa’s allegory and by the idea of truth as άλήθεια or unveiling of the self that is hidden by the veil of appearance, we have endowed our performance with a certain natural simplicity, a deliberate nakedness, especially in moments of particular emotional intensity.

Tracklist:
01. Amanti, io vi so dire
02. Sinfonia
03. La verità sprezzata
04. Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armato, SV 249
05. Lasciatemi morire, SV 22:1
06. Et è pur dunque verò, SV 250
07. Quel sguardo sdegnosetto, SV 247
08. Hor ch’è tempo di dormire
09. Stabat Mater
10. Passacaglio
11. Sì dolce è’l tormento, SV 332


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