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  • Adriano Banchieri: Il studio dilettevole & Il metamorfosi musicale (96Khz)

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    Artist: Delitiae Musicae-Marco Longhini

    Label: Stradivarius 96Khz/24bit

    Little is known about one of the most productive of the Italian musicians, Adriano Banchieri (1568- 1634), who is still too little heard on the international recordings scene. In reality, things are changing because undeniably his freshness of melody, his absolutely vital sense of dramatic musical narration and of poetic form, his appreciation of counterpoint, his strong sense of popular reality, his amusing colourful eloquence full of dialect expressions make him a composer of imposing stature and indisputable importance. Relegated to a narrow, absolutely marginal sector of Renaissance history, still today defined by the so-called dramatic (or representative) madrigals, Banchieri lived fully the most extraordinary and incredibly innovative period of the history of Italian “harmonic” music: we find clear signs of a new seventeenth-century sensibility in adaptation, or rather in making the word serve the representational needs, in the use of the basso concertante and in the extensive use of the continuo.
    The two works presented on this CD represent the chronological heart of Banchieri’s most typical production and may be appreciated in a modern recording for the first time: this is an ambitious project to be included more precisely within that research finally shedding light on Italian “minor”
    musical history of the end of the sixteenth century.