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With this disc, Giuseppe Maletto and Cantica Symphonia complete their ‘Dufay trilogy’ on Glossa: two volumes of motets and one of chansons (Tempio dell’Onore e delle Vertù, GCD P31903). These musicians (singers and instrumentalists), many of them members of the various configurations of La Venexiana, represent the best possible interpreters today for communicating this timeless and moving music: motets indelibly linked to the power
struggles that, in the first half of the fifteenth century, convulsed the politics of European powers and of the Roman Catholic Church – with the Church’s great Councils, attended by Guillaume Dufay, as the settings for glorious and evocative compositions. Together with Quadrivium (GCD P31901), this new release sees Cantica Symphonia traversing all the currently attributed motets by Dufay – works written to set the seal on historic occasions as well as those with liturgical texts. The accompanying essay admirably captures the pervasive fifteenth century currents of Humanism and religious splendour.
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| GLOSSA - GCD P31904 |
| Guillaume Dufay |
| Supremum est mortalibus bonum (Motets, Vol. 2) |
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Performers |
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Cantica Symphonia:
Alena Dantcheva, soprano
Laura Fabris, soprano
Maria Teresa Nesci, soprano
Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor
Fabio Furnari, tenor
Giuseppe Maletto, tenor
Marco Scavazza, baritone
Guido Magnano, organ
Marta Graziolino, harp
Svetlana Fomina, violin
Efix Puleo, violin
Mauro Morini, trumpet and sackbutt
David Yacus, trumpet and sackbutt
Francesca Casinari, soprano
Sveva Martin, soprano
Daniela Perlo, soprano
Livio Cavallo, tenor
Daniela Godio, violin
Giuseppe Maletto, conductor |
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Content |
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Guillaume Dufay (1678-1741):
Supremum est mortalibus bonum (Motets, Vol. 2)
Supremum est mortalibus bonum
Rite maiorem Iacobum canamus
O beate Sebastiane
O sancte Sebastiane
Magnam me gentes lauda paciare, Minerva
Aver regina celorum
Ave virgo, que de celis
Fulgens iubar ecclesie dei
Mirandas parit hec urbs florentina puellas
O gemma, lux et speculum
O proles
Yspanie
Moribus et genere Cristo coniuncte
Ave regina celorum
1 CD - DDD - 78'16'' |
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Production information |
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Recorded at Chiesa del Colletto, Roletto, Italy, in August and October 2005, and in September 2006. Davide Ficco, engineer |
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