COMPOSERS: D'india
LABELS: L'OISEAU-LYRE
WORKS: Eighth book of Madrigals; Solo Madrigals and Chamber Duets
PERFORMER: Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley
CATALOGUE NO: 444 168-2 ADD/DDD (1980-83)
Sigismondo D’India (a contemporary of Monteverdi), reintroduced to the early music world by Mompellio, Fortune and Watkins, eased his way onto the BBC airwaves as long ago as May 1973, when his ‘Strange harmony of love’ – the actual title of one of his madrigals – created a new audience for the composer. This reissue of recordings made a few years later by the Consort of Musicke under Anthony Rooley offers a varied group of solos, duets and quintets in welcome performances and adequate sound. D’India was an interesting composer, but as Antonio Goretti pointed out (Ferrara, 1627), he liked flattery and puffed himself up with it. No doubt he would have been suitably mollified by the selection offered here. Denis Stevens
D'india: Eighth book of Madrigals; Solo Madrigals and Chamber Duets
Sigismondo D’India (a contemporary of Monteverdi), reintroduced to the early music world by Mompellio, Fortune and Watkins, eased his way onto the BBC airwaves as long ago as May 1973, when his ‘Strange harmony of love’ – the actual title of one of his madrigals – created a new audience for the composer. This reissue of recordings made a few years later by the Consort of Musicke under Anthony Rooley offers a varied group of solos, duets and quintets in welcome performances and adequate sound.
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Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:15 pm