Harmonia Mundi Asu: CD-levy Vuosi: 2023, 06.10.2023 Kieli: und
Gramophone Awards
2024
Shortlisted - Early Music
Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew
Schütz: Il primo libro de Madrigali, SWV 1-19 (Op. 1)
1611: After two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Schütz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems.
This mere ‘graduation exercise’ turned out to be a masterpiece: the young German composer demonstrated his ability to identify each nuance of the text with a different musical emotion, a refinement heightened here by the interpretation of Les Arts Florissants.
"Les Arts Florissants’ elasticity of expression brings out a particularly lucid evocation of rolling waves and ‘sweet harmony’ in the concluding eight-voice ‘Vasto mar, nel cui seno fan soave armonia’." - Gramophone Magazine, February 2024
