Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer

• Cipriano de Rore (1515 - 1565):
• 1 L'ineffabil bontà del Redentore 02:16
• Philippe Verdelot (1480 - 1530):
• 2 Queste non son più lagrime 07:16
• Guillaume Morlaye (1510 - ?):
• 3 Non son io che pai' in visio 02:09
• Cipriano de Rore:
• 4 Era il bel viso suo qual esser suole 04:35
• 5 Convien che ovunque sua sempre cortese 04:41
• 6 Come la notte ogni fiammella è viva 02:35
• 7 Alcun non puo saper da chi sia amato 02:41
• 8 L'inconstantia che seco han 03:09
• 9 La giustitia immortale 02:13
• 10 O morte eterno fin 03:23
• 11 Se ben il duol 05:28
• 12 Mia benigna fortuna 07:28
• 13 Beato mi direi 05:35
• 14 Poi che m'invita Amore 05:33
• 15 Dissimulare etiam sperasti 09:29
• 16 Se come il biondo crin de la mia Filli 02:08
• 17 Mentre, lumi maggior 04:32
• Total Runtime 01:15:11

Info for Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog

The sixteenth-century madrigalist Cipriano de Rore perhaps remains something of a mystery figure in modern times, awaiting penetrating simplification and clarification. Rather than simplification, a new recording of selections from his expressive output from Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix, entitled Portrait of the artists as a starved dog, is more likely to yield illumination and fascination. That is Schmelzer’s way.

As with many Graindelavoix recordings on Glossa, the accompanying artwork in the CD booklet forms an integral part of the convincing performance (as does Schmelzer’s essay). Here, the imagery includes images by Albrecht D�rer and Hans Mielich, statues of Melpomene and Medusa, sculptures by Michelangelo, even a sardonyx cameo cup. A portrait of De Rore shows the inner likeness of the composer as being possessed of a manic madness or “furor divinus” and having the guise of an emaciated dog.

De Rore was born in Ronse – not that far from Schmelzer’s Antwerp – and, as well as probably being under the protection of Margaret of Parma, he travelled through Europe in the first half of the sixteenth century, notably to Ferrara. Regarded as a pivotal figure in the evolution of the madrigal, De Rore’s style developed significantly across his career and Graindelavoix’s programme gravitates from some of his settings of stanze from Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando furioso through to some of his later, much more radical madrigals. Also found on this recording is De Rore’s multi-voiced setting of Dido’s lament from Virgil’s Aeneid.

Lluis Coll i Trulls, cornet
Floris De Rycker, ceterone, lute, guitar
Graindelavoix
Björn Schmelzer, director

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Booklet for Portrait of the Artist as a Starved Dog