Claudio Cavina, Roberto Gini, Concerto delle Viole - De Vitae Fugacitate: Laments, cantatas and arias in 17th-century Germany (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 71:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 920901 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 300 Mb | Total time: 71:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 920901 | Recorded: 1992
Originally recorded in an Italian villa in 1992, this release covered German solo vocal music ranging over much of the 17th century, most of it with the melancholy tone suggested by the album's title. Its release by Spain's Glossa label in 2009 was likely due to the fact that it includes music that even by then remained unfamiliar. The biggest attraction is the sextet of songs, and songs are what they are, by Adam Krieger, the founder of the Leipzig Collegium Musicum Bach decades later. Some are secular, some sacred, and they sound very little like Schütz, Schein, or the comparable Italian works of the period; they're free in shape, rather light-hearted, and apparently written for the entertainment of aristocratic amateurs.