Madrigali a cinque voci
Stefano Lorenzetti, Ensemble del Dipartimento di Musica Antica del
- Label
- Rivo Alto
- Catalogue number
- CRA6 89122
- Release date
- 30 July 1990
Nicola Vicentino was known in his time as a music theorist and inventor of the microtonal archicembalo keyboard instrument, but it is the striking harmonic refinement of the madrigals that keeps his name alive today. These world premiere recordings of madrigals from the Fifth Book of 1572 are interspersed with instrumental pieces that explore comparable chromatic universes, including Giovanni Maria Trabaci's remarkable Toccata e recercar cromatico and the first instrumental canzona ever published: Canzon la Bella.