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Una poesia muta: Art in early Cinquecento Venice

Released with Linn Records, in collaboration with SWR Kultur & Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Una poesia muta: Art in early Cinquecento Venice

Una poesia muta: Art in early Cinquecento Venice is the result of a collaboration between SWR radio, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and The Marian Consort. Specially curated by the Stuttgart museum, Germany's first ever exhibition devoted to Vittore Carpaccio and his contemporaries has inspired The Marian Consort to devise an album to accompany this artistic journey. Being one of the most prominent painters of the Early Renaissance in Venice, Carpaccio is likely to have been acquainted with the music and the composers recorded here, since all have strong links to the city at that time. If some of them are well-known today - Josquin, Jean Mouton, Adrian Willaert - others deserve wider recognition. The Marian Consort and it's director Rory McCleery have assembled a typically fascinating programme, matched with superb singing.

Find out more about the exhibition here.

Tracklist

Josquin des Prez O bone et dulcis Domine Jesu

Alexander Demophon Venetus Volgi gli occhi

Jean L'Héritier Ave Domina mea

Antonio Caprioli Non si vedra gia mai

Costanzo Festa Nunc dimittis

Josquin des Prez, intabulated by Francesco Spinacino Ave Maria

Adrian Willaert Beatus Stephanus

Bartolomeo Tromboncino Ave Maria, regina in cielo

Jean Mouton Ave virgo caeli porta

Franciscus Bossinensis - Bartolomeo Tromboncino Ricercar 2 - Suspir io temo

Costanzo Festa Ab oriente venerunt Magi

Vincenzo Capirola Ricercar 8

Innocentius Dammonis Adoramus te

Josquin des Prez Gloria (from Missa Pange lingua)

Jean Mouton Corde et animo

Adrian Willaert Pater noster & Ave Maria

Credits

The Marian Consort

Rory McCleery, Artistic Director

Caroline Halls, Eleanor Bray, soprano

Sarah Anne Champion, Joy Sutcliffe, alto

Ed Woodhouse, Will Wright, tenor

Jon Stainsby, Christopher Webb, bass

Kristiina Watt, lute

Recording Producers & Engineers Tobias Hoff, Volker Smyrek

Post-production Tobias Hoff

Executive Producer SWR Dr. Doris Blaich

Academic Advisor Tim Shephard

Label Manager Timothée van der Stegen

Design Valérie Lagarde

Cover Image ‘Nascita di Maria’ by Vittore Carpaccio (c. 1460/65–1525/26) © Fondazione Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Recorded in Berger Kirche, Stuttgart, Germany, on 10–12 October 2023