BARBARA STROZZI (1619-c.1677)
ARIE & CANTATE
Opera Ottava. Venezia, 1664

1 E giungerà pur mai alla linea crudele
2 È pazzo il mio core
3 Serenata con violini: Hor che Apollo è a Theti in seno
4 Aure già che non posso dall'Idol mio
5 Luci belle deh ditemi perché
6 L'Astratto. Voglio sì vò cantar
7 Che si può fare
8 Cieli, stelle, Deitàdi

72 minutes of passionate and moving music, led by soprano Emanuela Galli and Fabio Bonizzoni: a recital of staggering virtuosity and interpretative sensitivity.

A moving musical swansong drawing on the life experiences of the most important woman composer since Hildegard von Bingen. Strozzi’s musical world is very different from that of her male contemporaries and she is often referred to as the greatest woman composer of all time. This is her last work, the culmination of her art, published 13 years before her death.

7 out of the 8 pieces recorded on this CD are world première recordings, which is surprising considering the importance of this composer and the beauty of her music.

Following Glossa’s work with La Venexiana -now recognized as the foremost Italian madrigal ensemble of their generation- the label has chosen to back another quite extraordinary Italian group, La Risonanza, which specializes in music from the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. In this way, Glossa continues the task of recovering –often unknown– Italian musical treasures.