Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti; Gianoncelli, etc. / Kiehr, Concerto Soave

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This is the only recording of sacred music by the extraordinary 17th-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. The Latin works in her collection Sacri Affetti Musicali were entirely suitable for church performance--something Strozzi herself, as a woman outside a convent, was forbidden to do. Most likely she performed these pieces as "spiritual recreation" at meetings of the "Academy of the Unisons" founded by her father, a well-known poet. The music is written in a rhapsodic, early-baroque style, with strong contrasts between loud and soft, changes of meter, surprising chromatic turns of melody, and plenty of the flights of virtuosity for which Strozzi's singing was famed. Argentine soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr can certainly handle this music's technical demands, and she phrases with subtlety. Her voice sounds beautifully pure but also slightly constricted, and however skillfully she sings, this rapturous music wants more élan than she brings to it. She is accompanied by a continuo group that includes various combinations of cello, lute, viol, harpsichord, organ, and harp; these instruments get choice solo turns in the brief instrumental works sprinkled among Strozzi's vocal pieces. --Matthew Westphal

Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti; Gianoncelli, etc. / Kiehr, Concerto Soave, Music, Sylvie Moquet, Bernardo Gianoncelli, Biagio Marini, Tarquinio Merula, Barbara Strozzi, Concerto Soave, Christina Pluhar, Jean-Marc Aymes, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Baroque Sinfonia for Orchestra, Chamber, Chamber Music, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Vocals, Keyboard, Medieval/Renaissance Organ Music, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Music for Keyboard, Renaissance Instrumental Polyphony, Vocal, Vocal Music
Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti; Gianoncelli, etc. / Kiehr, Concerto Soave
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Wonderful Beautiful CD in All Ways!
 Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti; Gianoncelli, etc. / Kiehr, Concerto Soave
Bernardo Gianoncelli , Biagio Marini , and Maria Cristina Kiehr
Manufacturer: L'empreinte Digitale
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000005WBY
Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

  1. Strozzi: Salve Regina
  2. Strozzi: Erat Petrus
  3. Strozzi: Mater Anna
  4. Gianoncelli: Tastegiata I
  5. Strozzi: Nascente Maria
  6. Gianoncelli: Tastegiata II
  7. Strozzi: Parasti cor meum
  8. Marini: Sinfonia secondo tono
  9. Strozzi: Hodie oritur
  10. Merula: Cappriccio cromatico
  11. Strozzi: Salve sancta caro
  12. Merula: Canzon
  13. Strozzi: O Maria
  14. Sacri Musicali Affetti. Libro I, Op.5: Salve Sancta Caro - Maria-Cristina Kiehr
  15. Canzon - Con Soave
  16. Sacri Musicali Affetti. Libro I, Op.5: O Maria - Maria-Cristina Kiehr

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This is the only recording of sacred music by the extraordinary 17th-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. The Latin works in her collection Sacri Affetti Musicali were entirely suitable for church performance--something Strozzi herself, as a woman outside a convent, was forbidden to do. Most likely she performed these pieces as "spiritual recreation" at meetings of the "Academy of the Unisons" founded by her father, a well-known poet. The music is written in a rhapsodic, early-baroque style, with strong contrasts between loud and soft, changes of meter, surprising chromatic turns of melody, and plenty of the flights of virtuosity for which Strozzi's singing was famed. Argentine soprano Maria Cristina Kiehr can certainly handle this music's technical demands, and she phrases with subtlety. Her voice sounds beautifully pure but also slightly constricted, and however skillfully she sings, this rapturous music wants more élan than she brings to it. She is accompanied by a continuo group that includes various combinations of cello, lute, viol, harpsichord, organ, and harp; these instruments get choice solo turns in the brief instrumental works sprinkled among Strozzi's vocal pieces. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Beautiful CD in All Ways!.......2003-06-21

I picked up this CD by accident one day, and it remains one of my all time favorites. Everything about this CD is top rate-the music and the production and the performances!

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