FUTURO ANTICO III
Mantova: la musica alla corte dei Gonzaga

Titles and lyrics 

EMI Classics Italy 2002

"The vocal expressions, in the period of the 14e til the 16e, were multiple: madrigal, frottole, little songs, villanelle, arie, etc... In this big variety of style and representation, we have choosen what today we are identifying as "song": only voice compositions with accompaniments, brief and effective, autonomous, with a simple structure and a direct communication. The vocal songs present on this CD are piece from composers of court, but as they were easily understable, those pieces were also been sung certainly by the common people constituting in that way, a good medium between cultured music and popular music. The presence of Monteverdi give the rythm to this recording: the instrumental passages(Balletto, Sinfonie, Ritornelli)intercalate those vocal are issued from the Orphee.
We have also put few popolar lombard'songs, yet famous today but with a faraway origin distant in the time (a version of "Donna lombarda" and "poisons Him"). The main conductor of the themes of those songs is the Love, musically interpreted by the composers and also represented, here, under different aspects: "La Ninfa amorosa", where the song of the time, often about pastoral ambiant were full of the most beautifull nymphs, "La rugiada...lacrime d'amore"because in one of this songs like others in the same period, the taste of the tears and dews were intimaly mixturated and were each other reflect.At the opposite, "Amore e attesa", "Amore e tormento", "Amore e morte", "Amore e gioia" were the classical eternal songs, used in the court as the ones now, that you can hear in the night club."

Francesca Torelli