Cipriano de Rore: Madrigals for four voices Profeti Della Quinta

• Cipriano de Rore (1516 - 1565):
• 1Rore: Com'havran fin le dolorose tempre02:12
• 2Rore: Io credea ch'el morire02:11
• 3Rore: La bella netta ignuda e bianca mano03:02
• 4Rore: Com'havran fin le dolorose tempre (harpsichord)01:50
• 5Rore: Io credea ch'el morire (harpsichord)01:54
• 6Rore: La bella netta ignuda e bianca mano (harpsichord)02:37
• 7Rore: Non è ch'il duol mi scemi03:02
• 8Rore: Io canterei d'amor sì novamente02:38
• 9Rore: Non è ch'il duol mi scemi (harpsichord)02:47
• 10Rore: Io canterei d'amor sì novamente (harpsichord)02:10
• 11Rore: Quel foco che tanti anni (harpsichord)01:38
• 12Rore: Quel foco che tanti anni02:03
• 13Rore: Se'l mio sempre per voi donna languire02:13
• 14Rore: En vos adieux04:44
• Total Runtime35:01

Info for Cipriano de Rore: Madrigals for four voices

Ensemble Profeti della Quinta was founded in Galilee, Israel, by singer (bass) and harpsichordist Elam Rotem. Focusing on repertoire from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the ensemble aims to create lively and expressive performances for contemporary audiences, while taking into account the performance practices of the period. An important part of Profeti della Quinta's activity is the performance and study of works hitherto overlooked, such as Emilia de' Cavalieri's Lamentations (1600) and Salomone Rossi's Hashirim asher li'Shlomo (1623), the first published polyphonic work in Hebrew.

Philippe Verdelot, a French composer of the Renaissance, is recognised as one of the creators of the madrigal. On this album, the Profeti della Quinta ensemble presents a selection of four-part madrigals from an anthology published posthumously (1540, 1565). The special feature of their performance is that each singer reads from the original notated single voice - unlike in a contemporary score with parts notated one above the other. The musicians must therefore listen to each other much more attentively and be able to respond spontaneously. This spontaneity is palpable throughout the recording and takes the listener very intensely back to the origins of the Italian madrigal.

Giovanna Baviera, canto
Doron Schleifer, alto
Jacob Lawrence, tenor
Elam Rotem, bass, & musical direction
Giovanna Baviera, viola da gamba
Anna Danilevskaia, viola da gamba
Elizabeth Rumsey, viola da gamba
L eonardo Bortolotto, viola da gamba

Profeti della Quinta
focuses on the vocal repertoire of the 16th and early 17th centuries. It aims to create vivid and expressive performances for audiences today while, at the same time, considering period performance practices.

Ensemble Profeti della Quinta was founded in the Galilee region of Israel by the bass singer and harpsichordist Elam Rotem, and is based in Basel, Switzerland, where its members undertook further studies of early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. From its core of five male singers, the ensemble collaborates regularly with instrumentalists and additional singers from Switzerland, Japan and Australia, sharing with them similar musical ideas.

The ensemble has recorded several CDs with music from the late Renaissance, including Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Salomone Rossi, Orlando di Lasso, Claudio Monteverdi, Alexander Utendal as well as from the pioneer of Renaissance madrigal, Philippe Verdelot. Profeti della Quinta have also premiered and recorded two works composed especially for the ensemble by Elam Rotem, Rappresentatione di Giuseppe e i suoi fratelli and Quia amore langueo. In addition, they are featured in a documentary film by Joseph Rochlitz, Hebreo: The Search for Salomone Rossi, and have had their concerts broadcast by numerous international radio stations.

Profeti della Quinta have been active in performing and researching hitherto neglected repertoire, such as Emilio de' Cavalieri's Lamentations (1600) and Salomone Rossi's Hashirim asher li'Shlomo (1623), the first publication of polyphony in Hebrew, which they also recorded to critical acclaim. In 2011, Ensemble Profeti della Quinta won York Early Music Young Artists Competition, and has since toured Europe, North America, Japan, China and Israel. It has performed in prestigious festivals and venues, such as the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, the Shanghai concert hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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