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CANTICA
SYMPHONIA
continues to reap important awards in France
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Tempio
dell'Onore e delle Vertù
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The
vocal and instrumental ensemble Cantica Symphonia,
directed by Giuseppe Maletto, has just released
on Glossa Platinum (GCDP31903) an anthology
of Chansons by Guillame Dufay (c.1397-1474).
After the Choc de Le Monde de la Musique and
the Diapason d'Or de l'Année 2005 awarded
for "Quadrivium", this second volume of the
Dufay project on Glossa, entitled "Tempio
dell'Onore e delle Vertù", has also been welcomed
in France with a new Diapason d'Or and the
Choc de la Musique. |
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is distingushed from all points of view, starting
with the location chosen for the recording, the
Colletto Church in Pinerolo. Evocative in every
sense, both because the group is rooted in this
region and because the composer himself had been
active in Pinerolo six centuries ago. The Piedmontese
musicologist Stanislao Cordero was the first to
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Cantica
Symphonia
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and, in 1925, had established that he was present
in Pinerolo during the Winter of 1438-1439, in the
service of the Savoia family. Cordero also found
the traces of a theatrical drama, unfortunately
lost, staged at Pinerolo in the presence of the
Duke, on the occasion of the1439 carnival: Il Tempio
dell'Onore e delle Vertù. This is a "moralité",
a genre much in fashion at the time, of allegoric
and moralizing character. Did Dufay take part in
the drama? This was the question posed by Cordero
in the 1920s. Even if the title of the CD is taken
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Cantica Symphonia does not want to give a reply
to a question which it is impossible to answer,
nor try an improbable reconstruction. |
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intriguing wager consists in shining a new light
on the secular works of Dufay, themselves posing
a possible interpretation of the title Tempio dell'Onore
e delle Vertù, seen in a perspective directed towards
the rising Humanism; a really interesting approach
to this wonderful work. The pieces on this CD alternate
as an imaginary dialogue among different allegorical
characters. In the gathering of different genres
and themes Maletto's group combines, with its usual
refinement, the voices of Alena Dantcheva, Laura
Fabris, Maria Teresa Nesci, Fabio Furnari and Giuseppe
Maletto himself with quite impeccable instrumentalists,
Guido Magnano, Svetlana Fomina, Efix Puleo, Marta
Graziolino, Margaret Koell and Michele Pasotti.
The entire CD is imbued with the essence of a refined
and profound expressiveness, well suited to these
works, |
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Quadrivium
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which are, however, presented with great simplicity
and without affectation. These are the fruits of
experience and constant study, resulting in performances
both beautiful and the well executed. |
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