Cappella Mediterranea – Arcadelt: Motteti – Madrigali – Chansons (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Brought up in the French-Flamish tradition but fed with the milk of Renaissance Italian madrigalism since he was about eighteen years old, Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568) left behind him many gems whose importance has been realized only recently. Let’s acclaim this magnificent album gathering the Chœur de Chambre de Namur, the ensemble Doulce Mémoire and the Cappella Mediterranea, to give us not the complete marigals, songs and motets by Arcadelt, of course, but a large selection of his most stupefying pieces. These are thus madrigals from his First and Fourth Books released during his Italian years around 1540, songs from the various Livres de Chansons (Books of Songs) released between 1550 and 1565 when he was living in Paris, and motets from various eras in his career—mostly Italian, a bit French too since he moved from court to court depending on the jobs, the political assassinations, the change in alliances and, generally, the implausible chaos between the various power players at the time. As a nod, we also hear an Ave Maria “according to Arcadelt”, in truth an imitation by Louis Dietsch, a composer from the 19th Century, and the comical Ave Maria d’Arcadelt … by Liszt, inspired by the Dietsch imitation, for solo organ, an exercise in returning to your ancient roots like people loved to imagine them during the Romantic era. We could even wonder if Saint-Saëns didn’t use the head of the main theme to recycle it into his ”Organ” Symphony, incidentally.

Tracklist:
CD1
01. Salve Regina a 5
02. O pulcherrima mulierum a 5
03. Domine non secundum a 3, 4 & 5
04. Filiae Jerusalem a 4
05. Recordare Domine a 5
06. Pater noster a 8
07. Gloriosae virginis Mariae a 5
08. Memento salutis auctor a 4
09. Lamentatio Jeremiae a 5
10. Agnus Dei (Missa Ave Regina Caelorum) a 5 & 6
11. Ave Maria (After Arcadelt)
12. Ave Maria d’Arcadelt

CD2
01. Il bianco e dolce cigno
02. Vostra fui e sarò, mentre ch’io viva
03. Amor, tu sai pur fare
04. Io son talvolta, Donna, per morire
05. Non mai sempre fortuna
06. Occhi miei lassi, mentre ch’io vi giro
07. Mentre gli ardenti rai
08. Felici amanti, voi che d’amor lieti
09. Io mi pensai che spento fusse ‘l foco
10. Voi mi poneste in foco
11. Tante son le mie pene
12. Alma, perché sì trist’ogni hor ti duoli
13. Quando col dolce suono (Instrumental)
14. Deh! dimm’ Amor se l’alma di costei
15. Crudel, acerba, inesorabil Morte
16. Deh fuggite, o mortali
17. Io non ardisco di levar più gli occhi
18. O felici occhi miei, felici voi
19. Dolce nimica mia
20. Ancidetemi pur grievi martiri
21. Hor che ’l cielo et la terra
22. Ahime, dov’è’l bel viso
23. Amorosetto fiore

CD3
01. Les yeux qui me sçeurent prendre
02. Tout au rebours
03. Vous n’aurez plus mes yeux la jouissance
04. Extrême amour est entre moy et elle
05. Si la beaulté de ma dame
06. De mes ennuys
07. De mes ennuys (Instrumental)
08. Nous boirons du vin clairet
09. Franc berger
10. Quand je me trouve auprès de ma maitresse (I)
11. Quand je me trouve auprès de ma maitresse (II)
12. Il me prend fantasie
13. Amour se plaint de ton forfait (Instrumental)
14. Margot labourez les vignes
15. La Diane que je sers
16. Entendez vous point vostre amy
17. Laissés la verde couleur
18. J’ay acquis un serviteur-Celle que j’estime tant
19. O le grand bien
20. Nous voyons que les hommes
21. Du temps que j’estois amoureux (Instrumental)
22. Contentez vous, heureuses violettes
23. Vous n’aurez plus mes yeux la jouissance (Instrumental)
24. Hélas amy
25. Ancidetemi pur

Personnel:
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Cappella Mediterranea
Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, conductor
Doulce memoire, conductor
Denis Raisin Dadre, conductor

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