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Cipriano de Rore: 'I madrigali a cinque voci"
with Italian recitations by Viola Ardeni, lecturer in the Department of French and Italian at UC Davis
Blue Heron brings to Davis mid-sixteenth-century Italian madrigals for five voices by the Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore, setting lyric poems by Petrarch and others. The poems will be recited in Italian to make audible the ways in which the music captures a wide range of emotions about the pain and pleasures of love. Blue Heron’s world premiere recording (in 2019) of De Rore’s 1542 madrigal set was made possible in part by the research of Jessie Ann Owens, UC Davis Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus and former dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. The collaborative project was awarded the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award.
For more information, please contact: Phil Daley
Event sponsored by Music