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‘Round M: Monteverdi Meets Jazz

Roberta Mameli, La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina

Released
2010
Label
Glossa
Forces
Vocal, Saxophone, Accordion
Personnel
Roberta Mameli soprano, with La Venexiana directed by Claudio Cavina, and the jazz quartet of Emanuele Cisi tenor and soprano saxophone, Fausto Beccalossi accordion, Alberto Lo Gatto double bass and Donato Stolfi drums

On ‘Round M, the seventeenth-century music keeps its written notes.

The jazz belongs to a second group, with saxophone, accordion, double bass and drums improvising around La Venexiana and soprano Roberta Mameli.

The Monk-like title is deliberate: both title and cover pay homage to ‘Round Midnight.

Hear both

The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsMonteverdi, Sances, Merula, Fontei, Negri · classical source works

The closing “Trasfigurazione della ninfa” repeats the recording used for track 1 because Negri’s piece is an elaboration of Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa.

Jazzed upRoberta Mameli, La Venexiana, Claudio Cavina · 2010
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Lamento della ninfa, SV 163, from Madrigals Book 8 [arr. for jazz ensemble]Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8 (Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi): Lamento della ninfa, SV 163
  2. Ohimè ch’io cado, ohimè (arr. A. Lo Gatto)Monteverdi: Ohimè ch’io cado, ohimè ch’io inciampo, SV 316
  3. Cantade: Usurpator tiranno (arr. for jazz ensemble)Sances: Usurpator tiranno, from the Cantade
  4. Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Book 2, Op. 13: Canzonetta, “Spirituale sopra la nanna” (arr. for jazz ensemble)Merula: Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, Book 2, Op. 13: Canzonetta spirituale sopra la nanna, ‘Hor ch’è tempo di dormire’
  5. Bizzarrie poetiche poste in musica, Book 3, Op. 4: Pianto di Erinna (arr. for jazz ensemble)Fontei: Bizzarrie poetiche poste in musica, Book 3, Op. 4: Pianto di Erinna
  6. Ohimè, dov’è il mio ben, dov’è il mio core?, SV 140, from Madrigals Book 7 [arr. for jazz ensemble]Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 7: Ohimè, dov’è il mio ben (Romanesca), SV 140
  7. Sì dolce è’l tormento (arr. for jazz ensemble)Monteverdi: Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze: ‘Sì dolce è’l tormento’, SV 332
  8. Trasfigurazione della ninfaNegri: Trasfigurazione della ninfa, after Monteverdi’s Lamento della ninfa - written on commission from La Venexiana for this album