L'arte del madrigale Voces Suaves

• Giaches de Wert (1535-1596):
• 1 Ha ninfe adorn’e belle 02:45
• 2 Sorgi e rischiara al tuo apparir il cielo 06:21
• Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (1550-1622):
• 3 Cantiam lieti, cantiamo 02:27
• 4 I’ mi son giovinetta 03:11
• Giaches de Wert:
• 5 Vicino un chiaro e cristallino fonte 02:23
• Lodovico Agostini (1534-1590):
• 6 Non t’aricordi 01:17
• Giaches de Wert:
• 7 Tirsi morir volea 03:50
• 8 Del vago Mincio sull’adorne sponde 03:45
• Cipriano de Rore (1515-1565):
• 9 Anchor che col partire 03:11
• Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566-1613):
• 10 Madrigals, Libro 2: VIII. Sento che nel partire 03:28
• Lodovico Agostini:
• 11 Vita della mia vita 01:36
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643):
• 12 Sfogava con le stelle, SV 78 03:27
• Luca Marenzio (1553-1599):
• 13 Potrò viver io più 03:33
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 14 O come è gran martire, SV 61 03:18
• Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638):
• 15 Passacaglia 05:10
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 16 T’amo mia vita, SV 104 02:30
• Lodovico Agostini:
• 17 All’arm’all’arme 01:32
• Duca Guglielmo Gonzaga (1538-1587):
• 18 Padre, che’l ciel, la terra e’l tutto reggi 02:38
• Giaches de Wert:
• 19 Hor si rallegri il Cielo 02:01
• 20 In qual parte si ratto 04:01
• Total Runtime 01:02:24

Info for L'arte del madrigale

The Basel-based vocal ensemble is dedicated to the musical repertoire of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with each musician performing as soloist within the ensemble. Thanks to the musicians’ historically informed background and the familiarity with the languages of the various compositions, they are able to evoke a highly sonorous, captivatingly warm sound, thus transforming the music into highly personal emotions and perceptions. The intensive cooperation and personal friendships within the group provide the basis for a common understanding and trust in the group’s musical development and interpretational work.

Tobias Wicky (baryton) founded the ensemble in 2012 together with a core of nine professional singers, most of whom have their roots in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Depending on the requirements of the program, the cast will vary and can be supplemented with instrumentalists.

Our repertoire comprises of a wide selection of Italian madrigals, compositions of the early German Baroque era, Italian oratorio and masses for larger casts. Apart from the compositions of the renowned masters, such as Monteverdi or Schütz, we also take pride in introducing works of formerly highly influential composers whose manuscripts were subsequently forgotten or temporarily lost, only to be recently rediscovered and now performed by Voces Suaves for the first time after many centuries.

Voces Suaves:
Lia Andres, soprano
Mirjam Wernli, soprano
Javier Robledano Cabrera, alto
Jan Thomer, alto
Paolo Borgonovo, tenor
Raphael Höhn, tenor
Davide Benetti, bass
Tobias Wicky, bass
Orí Harmelin, theorbo

Voces Suaves
which performs Renaissance and Baroque music with solo voices, is a vocal ensemble based in Basel. Taking into account the insights of historical performance practice, the ensemble strives for captivating rhetoric combined with a warm and full overall sound that makes the music come alive with emotion. By virtue of the intensive collaboration, a great familiarity within the musical work has evolved.

The ensemble, founded in 2012 by Tobias Wicky, is made up of a core of eight professional singers of whom most have a connection with the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The formation varies depending on the program. Instrumentalists are incorporated when necessary.

The repertoire contains a broad selection of Italian madrigals, works of the Early German Baroque, and larger-scaled Italian oratorios and Masses. In planning the programs, care is taken to include works by forgotten composers, such as Stefano Bernardi, Giaches De Wert and Giovanni Croce, alongside those of well-known masters like Monteverdi or Schütz.

Important performances have taken Voces Suaves to prestigious festivals throughout Europe, including the Festival d’Ambronay, the Festival de Saintes, Les Grands Concerts de Lyon, the Ravenna Festival, the Monteverdi Festival Cremona, the MA Festival, Bozar Brussels, the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, the Oslo Internasjonale Kirkemusikkfestival, the Festival Misteria Paschalia Krakow, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Festival Potsdam Sanssouci, and the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik. In the years 2014–16 the ensemble participated in the European promotion program “eeemerging, Emerging European Ensembles Project.”

Voces Suaves regularly joins together with renowned ensembles such as the Ensemble Concerto Scirocco, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Romano, Capriccio Stravaganza and the Capricornus Consort. Moreover, Voces Suaves has maintained long-standing collaborations with Michelle Vanelli, Jörg-Andreas Bötticher and Johannes Strobl.

Since 2015 various recordings by Voces Suaves have been released on the claves records, Ambronay éditions, Arcana (Outhere Music), and Deutsche Harmonia Mundi labels, and been honored with international prizes (including the Diapason découverte, Choc de Classica).

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