Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso

Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso

Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1461 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" HMA 195 1461 [CD]

Also reissued in 3CD compilation - Comédies Madrigalesques

Contents:

1. L'Amfiparnaso
2. Il convito musicale
   1. O giardiniero
   2. Lunghi danni
   3. Bando del asino

Playing time: 59' 20''

Performers:
Ensemble Clément Janequin
Dominique Visse, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [01/1993];
Rel.: 1993 (HMC), 2002 (HMA)

Excerpts:
[1, part] Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8173 [CD] A History of Music, Century: La révolution du Baroque italien / The Italian Baroque Revolution: La naissance de la musique moderne - The birth of modern music (1600-1750)

Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605) was one of the early Italian composers to begin working with larger-scale dramatic forms. L'Amfiparnaso (1597) is a madrigal-comedy cycle, in a sense an embryonic opera. Il convito musicale (1597) is music for an evening banquet, here performed with just the three madrigal excerpts.

Other recordings:

Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso

Società cameristica di Lugano - Edwin Loehrer
Accord 202602

Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso

Cappella Musicale di Petronio di Bologna - Sergio Vartolo
Naxos 8.553312

Orfeo Orazio Vecchi - L'Amfiparnasso

Eine harmonische Komödie
Deller Consort - Alfred Deller
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77211

Other recordings devoted to Vecchi:

Vecchi: L'Humore Musicale / La Caccia d'Amore

Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley
AS&V "Gaudeamus" 202

Vecchi: Le Veglie di Siena

Società cameristica di Lugano - Edwin Loehrer
Accord 149040

A recording devoted to the earliest surviving opera, also from this period:

Peri: L'Euridice

Ensemble Arpeggio - De Caro
Arts 524 132 (2 CDs)

And a contemporaneous proto-oratorio:

Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo

Istitutioni Harmoniche / Accademia Strumentale Italiana - Marco Longhini
Stradivarius 33339

A survey featuring some sacred music by Vecchi:

Musik am Salzburger Fürstenhof II

Salzburger Bachchor / Innsburcker Bläserkreis - Howard Arman
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77157

Finally, a related recording by the present ensemble:

Banchieri: Barca di Venetia per Padova

Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi 901281

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