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Il Trionfo Di Dori

The King’s Singers

Il Trionfo Di Dori

Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212041420
Catnr: SIGCD 414
Release date: 10 April 2015
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212041420
Catalogue number
SIGCD 414
Release date
10 April 2015
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About the album

Commissioned by Venetian nobleman Leonardo Sanudo in 1592, the Italian madrigal collection Il Trionfo di Dori comprises 29 madrigals by 29 madrigal composers, including many of the most significant Italian musicians of the time, such as Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1556–1612), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525–94), Giovanni Croce (1557–1609), Felice Anerio (c.1560–1614), Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi (c.1554–1609), and Alessandro Striggio (c.1536–92). Other composers are less well known, with some, as well as some of the poets, being highborn associates of Sanudo. The madrigals extol the virtues of Sanudo’s wife, through the alter ego of the sea-nymph, Dori, the daughter of Oceanus, the divine personification of the sea from mythology. The double Grammy® award-winning King’s Singers are much admired for their musical excellence and recognized as consummate entertainers. Performing over 120 concerts worldwide each year, they have also premiered more than 200 new

The King's Singers vertolken de madrigaal collectie 'Il Trionfo di Dori' op sierlijke wijze
The King's Singers presenteren op dit album de complete collectie an madrigalen 'Il Trionfo di Dori'. Deze collectie werd gecomponeerd in opdracht van de Venetiaanse edelman Leonardo Sanudo in 1592 en bestaat uit 29 werken gecomponeerd door 29 verschillende madrigaal componisten, waaronder veel van de belangrijkste Italiaanse musici van die tijd; Gabrieli, Palestrina, Croce, Anerio, Gastoldi en Striggio. Andere componisten waren minder bekend en waren vermogende kennissen van Sanudo. De madrigalen prijzen de deugden van Sanudo's vrouw door middel van het pseudoniem Dori, een zee-nimf die de dochter van Oceanus was, de goddelijke personificatie van de zee uit de mythologie. De teksten schetsen een idyllisch tafereel van Arcadië, een utopisch land bewoond door nimfen, herders en saters, die allen tezamen komen aan het eind van elk madrigaal voor de lofzang voor Dori, met het refrein Viva la bella Dori (Lang leve de prachtige Dori).

De Gramophone was lovend over het album: “The King's Singers bring a sense of perfect social grace and urbanity to this music…it is hard to imagine a group with greater potential to do justice to this music of love and mythology than they.”

Artist(s)

The King's Singers

The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations. What has always distinguished the group is their comfort in an unprecedented range of styles and genres, pushing the boundaries of their repertoire, while at the same time honouring their origins in the British choral tradition. They are known and loved around the world, and appear regularly in major cities, festivals and venues across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, Helsinki Music Centre, Sydney Opera...
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The King’s Singers have represented the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, versatility and skill in performance, and for their consummate musicianship, drawing both on the group’s rich heritage and its pioneering spirit to create an extraordinary wealth of original works and unique collaborations.
What has always distinguished the group is their comfort in an unprecedented range of styles and genres, pushing the boundaries of their repertoire, while at the same time honouring their origins in the British choral tradition. They are known and loved around the world, and appear regularly in major cities, festivals and venues across Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Tonhalle Zurich, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Edinburgh International Festival, Helsinki Music Centre, Sydney Opera House, Tokyo Opera City and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. They also work with orchestras, recently including the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with whom they performed a specially commissioned work by Sir James MacMillan.
9 The King’s Singers’ extensive discography has led to numerous awards including two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, and a place in Gramophone magazine’s inaugural Hall of Fame. As part of their 50th anniversary celebrations in 2018, the group undertook a series of major tours worldwide, supporting the release of a special anniversary album GOLD (also nominated for a Grammy Award), which featured important works in the group’s history and new commissions by Bob Chilcott, John Rutter and Nico Muhly.
This commitment to creating a new repertoire has always been central to the group, with over 200 commissioned works by many leading composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries, including John Tavener, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. These join a unique body of close-harmony and a cappella arrangements, including those by individual King’s Singers past and present. Many of their early collaborators’ own experience with brass bands helped to inform the distinct ‘King’s Singers sound’ and a large number of their commissioned works and arrangements are available in their own signature series with Hal Leonard, selling over two million copies worldwide. A key to the group’s success has been their ability to evolve and innovate over many years – and through 28 individual members – while always retaining this special sound and musical integrity.
They also lead educational workshops and residential courses across the world, working with groups and individuals on their techniques and approaches to ensemble singing. In 2018 they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation to provide a platform for the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, coach a new generation of performers and provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.
The King’s Singers were formed in 1968, when six recent choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge gave a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. By chance, the group was made up of two countertenors, a tenor, two baritones and a bass, and the group has maintained this formation ever since that debut.
Patrick Dunachie countertenor Edward Button countertenor Julian Gregory tenor Christopher Bruerton baritone Nick Ashby baritone Jonathan Howard bass
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Composer(s)

Giovanni Gabrieli

Many a man will know the terms 'piano' and 'forte' to describe a soft or loud volume. The Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli was the first to ever used these terms in a musical work, around 1600, in his Sonata pian' e forte. Yet, this is not the only accomplishment Gabrieli is known for: he was also one of the first to compose music for multiple choirs, in which a vocal or instrumental ensemble was spread throughout the available space. This especially would have had an impressive effect in the gigantic St Mark's Basilica of Venice.  Due to these innovations, many students, among which Heinrich Schütz, wanted to be taught by Gabrieli. Gabrieli's most seminal work includes his Sacrae symphoniae (1597) and his posthumously...
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Many a man will know the terms 'piano' and 'forte' to describe a soft or loud volume. The Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli was the first to ever used these terms in a musical work, around 1600, in his Sonata pian' e forte. Yet, this is not the only accomplishment Gabrieli is known for: he was also one of the first to compose music for multiple choirs, in which a vocal or instrumental ensemble was spread throughout the available space. This especially would have had an impressive effect in the gigantic St Mark's Basilica of Venice. Due to these innovations, many students, among which Heinrich Schütz, wanted to be taught by Gabrieli. Gabrieli's most seminal work includes his Sacrae symphoniae (1597) and his posthumously published Canzoni et sonate (1615).


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Alessandro Striggio

The Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music. By combining the two genres, he became the inventor of the madrigal comedy. Striggio was born in Mantua. Records of his early life are sparse, but he must have gone to Florence as a young man. He began working for Cosimo de' Medici on 1 March 1559 as a musician. During the 1580s he began an association with the Este court in Ferrara and composed music in the progressive style he heard there, which unfortunately is lost. In 1586 he moved to Mantua, where he remained for the rest of his life. Striggio wrote both sacred and secular vocal music, sometimes with instrumental accompaniment. He was very influential in...
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The Italian composer Alessandro Striggio wrote numerous madrigals as well as dramatic music. By combining the two genres, he became the inventor of the madrigal comedy.
Striggio was born in Mantua. Records of his early life are sparse, but he must have gone to Florence as a young man. He began working for Cosimo de' Medici on 1 March 1559 as a musician. During the 1580s he began an association with the Este court in Ferrara and composed music in the progressive style he heard there, which unfortunately is lost. In 1586 he moved to Mantua, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Striggio wrote both sacred and secular vocal music, sometimes with instrumental accompaniment. He was very influential in his lifetime, as shown by the distribution of his music through Europe in the late 16th century. One of his most impressive works is his motet Ecce beatam lucem for 40 independent voices. Of an even larger scale is the Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno with an Agnus Dei for 60 voices. This work was long thought to be lost, but was recently discovered by the American musicologist Davitt Moroney.

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01.
Un giorno a Pale sacro
03:06
(Ippolito Baccusi) Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
02.
Dove sorge piacevole
02:49
03.
Hor ch’ogni vento tace
03:22
(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Orazio Vecchi, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Southbank Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia
04.
Se cantano gl’augelli
02:30
Giovanni Gabrieli, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
05.
Ninfe e danzar venite
01:50
Alfonso Preti, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
06.
Leggiadre ninfe a pastorelli amanti
02:43
(Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi) Luca Marenzio, Ilona Domnich, Leo Nucci, Ilona Domnich, Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Southbank Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia
07.
Vaghe ninfe selvage
02:44
Giovanni de Macque, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
08.
All’apparir di Dori anzi del sole
02:16
Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Oratio Colombani
09.
Giunta qui Dori, e pastorelli amanti
03:05
Giovanni Cavaccio, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
10.
Nel tempo che ritorna
02:30
Il Trionfo Di Dori, Annibale Stabile
11.
All’ombra d’un bel faggio
02:49
Paolo Bozzi, Il Trionfo Di Dori
12.
Su? le fiorite sponde
02:14
Tiburtio Massaino, Ilona Domnich
13.
In una verde piaggia
02:12
Giammateo Asola, Il Trionfo Di Dori
14.
Smeraldi eran le rive il fium’argento
02:16
Giulio Eremita, Il Trionfo Di Dori
15.
Lungo le chiare linfe
01:46
Leo Nucci, Philippe de Monte, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
16.
Ove tra l’herbe e fiori
02:33
Giovanni Croce, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
17.
Quando lieta vezzosa
02:19
Pietro Andrea Bonini, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
18.
Eran ninfe e pastori
02:08
Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Leo Nucci, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Alessandro Striggio, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
19.
Più trasparente velo
02:32
Giovanni Florio, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
20.
Di pastorali accenti
02:40
Leone Leoni, Il Trionfo Di Dori
21.
Sotto l’ombroso speco
02:44
Felice Anerio, Il Trionfo Di Dori
22.
L’inargentato lido
02:35
Gasparo Zerto, Il Trionfo Di Dori
23.
Quand’apparisti o vag’o amata Dori
02:23
Ruggiero Giovanelli, Il Trionfo Di Dori
24.
Mentr’a? quest’ombr’intorno
02:59
Gasparo Costa, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Ilona Domnich, Southbank Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia
25.
Dori a? quest’ombre e l’aura
02:02
Lelio Bertani, Il Trionfo Di Dori
26.
Mentre pastori e ninfe
01:57
Ludovico Balbi, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
27.
Al mormorar de liquidi cristalli
02:37
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
28.
Da lo spuntar de matutini albori
02:36
Costanzo Porta, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
29.
Quando dal terzo cielo
02:25
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Il Trionfo Di Dori, Il Trionfo Di Dori
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