COMPOSERS: Vecchi
LABELS: ASV Gaudeamus
WORKS: L’humore musicale; La caccia d’amore
PERFORMER: The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley
CATALOGUE NO: CD GAU 202
A remarkable vignette of artificial 17th-century Italian courtly life. ‘Love’ is hunted in eyes, in hair, between breasts, before a hilarious game of ‘tongue-twisters’. Best though are 14 mannered mood-pictures spanning every emotion in intensely detailed word-painting. Truly revelatory. George Pratt
Vecchi
A remarkable vignette of artificial 17th-century Italian courtly life. ‘Love’ is hunted in eyes, in hair, between breasts, before a hilarious game of ‘tongue-twisters’. Best though are 14 mannered mood-pictures spanning every emotion in intensely detailed word-painting. Truly revelatory. George Pratt
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 1:22 pm