The material on this disc may be a footnote to musical history, but, as anyone who has read David Foster Wallace can tell you, the best stuff is sometimes in the footnotes. La tavola cromatica contains music that might have been associated with a viol academy of early seventeenth century Rome, established by Cardinal Francesco Barberini -- scion of a powerful Roman family, nephew to Pope Urban VIII, and apparently a patron of musical experimenters. The music is mostly for viol consort, with eight of the 18 works having ...
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The material on this disc may be a footnote to musical history, but, as anyone who has read David Foster Wallace can tell you, the best stuff is sometimes in the footnotes. La tavola cromatica contains music that might have been associated with a viol academy of early seventeenth century Rome, established by Cardinal Francesco Barberini -- scion of a powerful Roman family, nephew to Pope Urban VIII, and apparently a patron of musical experimenters. The music is mostly for viol consort, with eight of the 18 works having texts sung by the divine early music soprano Evelyn Tubb. Composers represented range from the well-known (Carlo Gesualdo, whose madrigals are performed by viols or voice and viols), to the little-known (Pomponio Nenna), to the almost completely obscure (Ercole Bottrigari). Those who know the heated, highly chromatic madrigals of Gesualdo have tended to think of them as unique experiments, as something of a historical dead end. La tavola cromatica shows that view to be incorrect....
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