Caccini: Le Nuove Musiche

Giulio Caccini:

Le Nuove Musiche, Firenze 1601 – Nuove Musiche e nuova maniera di scriverle Firenze 1614
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (EMI) « SCB – Documenta » 1C 065 1695001 [LP]
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi « SCB – Documenta » GD 77164 [CD]
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi « Splendeurs » 74321 93544-2 / GD77164 [Sleeve / CD]
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82867 70038 [CD]

Contents:

1. Amor ch'attendi
2. Amor, io parto
3. Tu ch'hai le penne
4. Non ha'l ciel
5. Alme luci beate
6. Vedrò 'l mio sol
7. Tutto 'l di piango
8. Dolcissimo sospiro
9. Dalla porta d'oriente
10. Amarilli mia bella
11. Movetevi à pietà
12. Belle rose porporine
13. Queste lagrim' amare
14. Torna, deh torna
15. Con le luci d'un bel ciglio

Performers: Montserrat Figueras (voice), Hopkinson Smith (lute, guitar), Robert Clancy (guitar, chitarrone), Jordi Savall (viol), Xenia Schindler (harp)

Playing time: 51'

Recording site and date:
Kirche Amsoldingen, Kanton Bern, Switzerland [01/1983]
rel.: 1984 [LP], 1990 [CD]

Excerpts:
[1], [4]-[5] Alia Vox AV 9811 [CD] La Barcha D'Amore. 1563-1685

Giulio Caccini (c.1550-1618) was born in Rome, and soon took up an important musical post in Florence under the Medicis. He was widely famous, and apparently a very controversial figure, having boasted of inventing the solo chordally-accompanied song.

His two collections entited Nuove Musiche of 1602 & 1614 are certainly important to this development, and Caccini was one of a handful of composers to first work in this new style. However, it had become common practice to perform older madrigals in this way via intabulations, so any notion of invention is hazy at best. Nonetheless, Caccini's detailed ornaments given to the printed vocal part are a landmark in composition.

Other recordings:

Caccini: Nuove Musiche

Johanette Zomer / Fred Jacobs
Channel Classics 21305

Il Giardino di Giulio Caccini

Marco Horvat, et al.
Alpha 043

Caccini: Madrigali, Arie e Canzoni

Academia Monteverdi - Hans Ludwing Hirsch
Arts 47203

Caccini: Complete Madrigals & Arias, Vol. 1

Le Nuove Musiche
Barazzoni / Volta
Arion 268190 (2 CDs)

Caccini: Complete Madrigals & Arias, Vol. 2

Nuove Musiche e Nuova Maniera de Scriverle
Barazzoni / Volta
Arion 268216 (2 CDs)

Caccini: Amor che fai?

Madrigali e Arie, 1601 & 1614
Stephan Van Dyck, Christina Pluhar, et al.
Musica Ficta 8003

A few more general collections:

Nuove musiche

Rolf Lislevand, Arianna Savall, et al.
ECM "New Series" 476 3049

Le Nuove Musiche

Caccini, Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, Monteverdi, Peri
Ensemble Balletto Terzo
Marc Aurel Edition 981

I'vo piangendo

Music from 17th Century Italy
Akantus Ensemble
Alice Musik 017

Udite Amanti

Italian Baroque Lute Songs
Jill Feldman / Nigel North
Linn 005

Lagrime Mie

The Monodic Lute Song in 17th-century Italy
Jennifer Lane / Timothy Burris
PGM Records 103

Canti amorosi

Nigel Rogers et al.
DG Archiv 437 075

Pianger di Dolcezza

Caccini, D'India, et al.
Jill Feldman / Galasso / Schröder
Stradivarius 33606

A recording illustrating somewhat earlier Florentine repertory:

La Pellegrina

Music for the Wedding of Ferdinando de' Medici and Christine de Lorraine, Princess of France (Florence 1589)
Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 63362 (2 CDs)

And recordings devoted to related contemporaries:

Il Zazzerino - Music of Jacopo Peri

Hargis / O'Dette / Lawrence-King / Perl
Harmonia Mundi USA 907234

Belli: Il Nuovo Stile

Laurens / Le Poème Harmonique - Vincent Dumestre
Alpha 002

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