01 Lamento della ninfa
Claudio Monteverdi
(Ottavo Libro dei Madrigali, 1638)

Roberta Mameli, сопрано
ансабль La Venexiana
дирижёр Claudio Cavina

Efix Puleo, Daniela Godio, violins
Luca Moretti, viola
Caterina Dell’Agnello, cello
Gabriele Palomba, Fulvio Garlaschi, theorbos
Marta Graziolino, harp
Davide Pozzi, harpsichord

Featuring:
Emanuele Cisi, soprano and tenor saxophones
Fausto Beccalossi, accordion
Alberto Lo Gatto, double bass
Donato Stolfi, [bad word] 
About this CD

What happens when you bring the worlds of jazz and Monteverdi together? Is there a musical meeting-point where the two can exist? Claudio Cavina clearly has been believing in this possibility for some time (witness some very “modern” moments in his recent Glossa recordings of the Scherzi musicali and L’incoronazione di Poppea).

Yet this is not La Venexiana playing jazz: Cavina and his musicians do not change a note of the original scores. Instead they bring all their experience and expertise of playing Monteverdi’s madrigals, sacred music (the 1610 Vespers being their current performing focus) and operas to bear on a group of “ ballads” from the 17th century, but in [bad word] of a select quartet of improvising jazz musicians on saxophone, accordion, double bass and [bad word] and all with the warm, soaring story-telling vocal tones of Roberta Mameli shining through as the protagonist.

The clue lies in the album’s title, with the musicians tipping their hats and paying hommage to jazz standards. And Cavina says that within Monteverdi ’s music, “there is something modern, something new and innovatory which encourages one to dare, to go further.” Listen to the results...