Peter Paul Rubens - Music Of His Time

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SUSATO / DOWLAND / LOBO / MONTEVERDI / SCHUTZ / etc
Peter Paul Rubens - Music Of His Time
Oxford Camerata / San Petronio Cappella Musicale Chorus / Rose Consort of Viols / San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists

[ Naxos Educational Art and Music / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 1 July 2002

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Popular opinion has dealt harshly with Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): there are too many gods and goddesses in his paintings and the women are too large. But through changing fashions, the strength and vigour of his work are still a marvel: in a Rubens even the darkness seems to glow. On this CD, the world of Rubens is given a musical perspective with a carefully chosen selection of pieces by the finest composers of his time. Inside, Hugh Griffith provides explanatory notes on his life and musical environment.

The various forms of art - visual art, architecture, literature, and music - develop at different times. Very often music is the last to adopt and absorb new sensibilities, while the visual arts lead. So it is salutary to discover, as we do in the absorbing booklet essay that accompanies the CD, how much Rubens in his imagination was ahead of the music of the time. How well did Rubens know Monteverdi at Mantua? Did he hear John Bull play at Antwerp Cathedral? These and other fascinating connections enrich both Rubens' art and the chosen music - by Susato, Dowland, Lobo, Monteverdi, Schutz, Bull, Gibbons, and Lawes.

Tracks:

Anon., arr. Susato: Den IIII., I. ende VI. Ronde
Anon.: Myn herteken is my heymelic wuyt ghetoogen
Susato: Int midden van den meye

Dowland:
Mr John Langton's pavan
Captain Digorie Piper his galiard

Lobo:
Versa est in luctum

Monteverddi:
L'Orfeo: Act I (excerpts)

Schutz:
Cantiones sacrae

Bull:
Prelude for organ
Fantasy for organ

Gibbons:
A Mask: The Fairest Nymph
Lincoln's Inn Mask
Allmaine in G

Lawes:
Royal Consort in D Major