Il Trionfo Di Dori by The King’s Singers

Various composers

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.”

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The King's Singers

The King's Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty-five years. They are renowned for their unrivalled technique, musicianship and versatility, which stem from the group’s rich heritage and its drive to bring an extraordinary range of new and unique works, collaborations and recordings to life. 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. The King’s Singers were officially 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 stuck to this formation ever since.
In the last few years, the group has recorded and released a series of diverse, collaborative albums that showcase the huge breadth of their repertoire. One honours two great English Renaissance composers: Thomas Weelkes and William Byrd; another is centred around Romantic music; a third honours 100 years of Disney, with 28 brand-new arrangements of iconic Disney songs; a fourth is a double-album focussed on the group’s library of signature ‘close harmony’ arrangements; and another celebrates the group’s extraordinary body of commissioned new music. Growing the global canon of choral music has always been one of the group's key aims, and The King’s Singers have now commissioned more than 300 works by many of the most prominent composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. These composers include John Tavener, Joe Hisaishi, Judith Bingham, Eric Whitacre, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu. All this new music joins their body of bespoke a cappella arrangements, including many by King’s Singers past and present.
Alongside their demanding performing and recording schedule – with over 100 concerts worldwide every season – the group leads educational workshops and residential courses across the globe, working with ensembles on their approaches to group singing. To mark their 50th anniversary in 2018, they founded The King’s Singers Global Foundation (based in the USA), to provide a platform to support the creation of new music across multiple disciplines, to coach a new generation of performers, and to provide musical opportunities to people of all backgrounds.

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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...

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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Philippe de Monte

Giovanni de Macque

Giovanni Croce

Felice Anerio

Annibale Stabile

Ippolito Sabino

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 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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