Atalante’s award-winning CDs of 17th-century Roman music
'Revelatory...a milestone...a more powerful and persuasive advocacy for these pieces could hardly be imagined'
Iain Fenlon, Early Music
ATALANTE
Erin Headley, director
Enjoy a recently discovered cache of extravagant, sensual,
ravishing, sublime, religiously ecstatic, supremely expressive
music that has been lost for centuries. Music by Luigi Rossi,
Giacomo Carissimi, Marco Marazzoli, Domenico Mazzocchi,
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, Alessandro Stradella.
RELIQUIE DI ROMA
Tears of Artemisia, Helen of Troy, Mary Magdalene, the
Blessed Virgin...passionate, sensual, macabre and erotic
A vivid account of St Catherine of Alexandria who endures
imprisonment and the killing wheel but dies by the sword
Narratives from the Aeneid, Nero and the Fire of Rome,
Armida and Zaida
I
Lamentarium
II
Caro Sposo
III
Mortale, che pensi?
CANTAR ALLA VIOLA
Nadine Balbeisi, soprano
Fernando Marin, viola da gamba
EACH LOVELY GRACE
THE SECOND BOOKE OF AYRES,
Some, to Sing and Play to the
Base-Violl alone...
With new Corantoes, Pavins, Almaines;
also diverse Descants upon old Grounds,
set to the Lyra-Violl.
By William Corkine.
This music is truly lovely, focused and - perhaps most noticeably -
reflects many moods...Nadine Balbeisi and Fernando Marín obviously
have a great deal invested in the music, its emotional impact, the
purposeful tension between text and music, at which we can safely say
Corkine was expert.
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Nadine Balbeisi and Fernando
Marín perform with studied
intelligence... Corkine’s music
has been well realised.
Erin Headley's award-winning ensemble Atalante is
named in honour of Leonardo da Vinci's friend and
pupil Atalante Migliorotti, the lirone's inventor. In the
17th century the lirone was associated with the
lament, a genre that first appeared during the
generation of Monteverdi and reached its
culmination in Rome.
‘Breathtaking performances of delicious music’ Gramophone
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the sound of excellence
