"The mistress, a collection of love poems by Abraham Cowley, was a bestseller of the seventeenth century. It offerered the reader a window to the love-talk of the court: with it, any man could gaze on the alluring and remote mistress; any woman could emulate her style of seduction; all could become lovers. The contemporary musical settings heighten that poetry, and in these performances it is brought alive for us today in an irresistible manner." (Thomas Calhoun, CD-boekje)
"Musica Oscura, Rooley's own label, allows him to unveil some exquisite musk.; The riches of the ongoing series 'The Monteverdi Circle' include 21 settings of a single poem, Guarini's lament 'Cor mio, deh non languire'. Far from a daunting expression of unrelieved melancholy, these reveal remarkably inventive madrigals and solo songs, notably by a German, Johann Grabbe, an Englishman, John Ward, and by Alessandro Scarlatti writing in a consciously anachronistic style a hundred years later than the earliest setting." (classical-music.com)
"The music for this disc is chosen from a selection of Luca Marenzio's prolific output of madrigal sets and follows a rewarding, if not entirely convincing, account of Cipriano de Rore's valedictory Fifth Book. Evidently, his sense of balanced melody built upon a gleaming diatonic backdrop appealed greatly. Of course there is more to Marenzio than simply providing models for England's short-lived flirtation with madrigals. He was a composer whose wide-ranging qualities earned him the reputation of being a master of fresh and lucid texts, as well as the more serious and anguished style of the mannerists.The Consort turn in a performance of remarkable quality, movingly paced and immaculately blended. A fine achievement and not to be missed." (Gramophone)
"The Consort of Musicke is een Britse oude-muziekgroep , opgericht in 1969 door luitist Anthony Rooley , de artistiek directeur van het ensemble. Het Consort heeft in zijn lange leven verschillende belangrijke fasen doorgemaakt, wat de passies van Anthony Rooley weerspiegelt. De line-up van artiesten is in de loop der jaren eveneens veranderd en wordt uitgebreid met bepaalde projecten. Kernzangers sinds 2004; Evelyn Tubb sopraan, Lucy Ballard alt, Andrew King tenor, Simon Grant bas. De groep heeft meer dan 120 opnames gemaakt die de verkenning van muziek uit vroegere tijden weerspiegelen, hoewel veel van de eerdere opnames alleen op vinyl bestaan. Op de recente cd-opnamen van het Consort staan ;onder meer de prerafaëlitische madrigalen van Robert Lucas Pearsall en de motetten van de Nederlandse componist Verrijt , die lovende reacties kregen van de Nederlandse critici." (Wikipedia)
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