Banchieri: Barca Di Venetia Per Padua / Il Zabaione Musicale

Featuring

Damiano Binetti
Lino Toffolo
Prague Madrigalists
Adriano Banchieri

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Composition History

La Barca di Venetia per Padova, featured on this album, was revised by Banchieri in 1623, with new passages and the addition of a basso continuo part not present in the 1605 original.

Performer Biography

The Prague Madrigalists, founded in 1956, were the first professional modern ensemble to perform early music in Bohemia and have won international awards, including the Charles Cros Record Academy prize.

Compositional Technique

Unlike typical musical theatre of the time, Banchieri's works on this album use a polyphonic ensemble to give voice to various characters, rather than individual voices.

Composer Biography

Banchieri, the composer, often published his works under pseudonyms, including Attabalibba from Peru, Camillo Scaligeri della Fratta, Adriano da Bologna, and Il Dissonante.

Compositional Technique

La Barca di Venetia per Padova includes charming stylistic parodies of other composers like Gesualdo da Venosa, Luca Marenzio, Donato Antonio Spano, and Enrico Antonio Radesca.

Composition History

The works on this album, Il Zabaione musicale (1604) and La Barca di Venetia per Padova (1605), are academic or dramatic madrigals modeled after Orazio Vecchi's works.

Composer Biography

Adriano Banchieri, the composer, was an Olivetan monk from the age of nineteen and served as an organist at the church of San Michele in Bosco in Bologna from 1608 until his death.