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2022-07-08 08:03:45
Gareth Wilson & choir of Girton College, Cambridge return to the richly textured music of Marc'Antonio Ingegneri for a second disc on Toccata Classics
[…] reference to music. Similarly in Cremona the bishop seems to have been most concern with matters such as priestly negligence, poor religious education and declining attendance. What we can say is that the cathedral choir flourished and became a serious choral institution.The centrepiece of the disc is Ingegneri's five-voice Missa Voce mea, a parody mass based on a motet, Voce mea that Ingegneri thought was by Cipriano de Rore but which is now attributed to Paolo Animuccia. The mass setting was published in 1573. Ingegneri's parody technique contributes to the richness of texture of the mass as, rather than take sections from the source material and place them untouched, Ingegneri breaks it down into smaller motifs and uses them contrapuntally to create some remarkably dense textures. It is highly academic, certainly, but there is an emotional pull too and this music is certainly not dry.What gives these performances their particular colour […]
2020-08-24 13:53:52
Giovanni Animuccia, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: August 24, 2020. Porpora and Salieri. Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25th 101 years ago. Otherwise a rare paucity, which we’ll use to go back to the music of the Renaissance. Up till now we have never written about Giovanni Animuccia, a Florentine composer born around 1520. The music of Florence was not as developed as that of Rome; Animucci was one of only two significant composers working around that time, the other one being Francesco Corteccia, maestro di cappella to the Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici. While in Florence, Animucci composed a book of madrigals, which was published in Venice in 1548. He was associated with major literary and religious figures of Florence, such as the famous priest Philip Neri, who would later, after moving to Rome, be known as the Second Apostle of Rome and for whose religious community, the Oratory, […]
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