1611. After two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Schütz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems. This mere ‘graduation exercise’ turned out to be a masterpiece: the young German composer demonstrated his ability to identify each nuance of the text with a different musical emotion, a refinement heightened here by the interpretation of Les Arts Florissants.
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“… don’t pass up the chance to obtain this superb disc.”
J F Weber – Fanfare – March/April 2024
***** Coup de cœur
Jérémie Bigorie – Classica magazine (France) – March 2024
“…Les Arts Florissants under Paul Agnew succeed, so to speak, in bringing 19 short one-act operas to the stage within an hour, giving each madrigal its own character, its own spectrum of emotions and timbres, and performing them with great attention to detail. The ‘serious’ Schütz is then allowed to sound perky, playful, teasing.” ****
Guy Engels – Pizzicato.lu – 17 October 2023
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