LA VENEXIANA

 

 

LA VENEXIANA is today the most important madrigal group actually in activity.
In styling to the anonymous renassaince comedy from it’s named , LA VENEXIANA aims to incorporate into its musical interpretation the theatrically, attention to language in all of its subtlety, and exultation of contrasts between refined and popular, sacred and profane, that characterize our culture today.

Since the beginning of 1998 LA VENEXIANA collaborates only with the Spanish label GLOSSA. The first fruit of this new relationship, the Terzo libro di Madrigali by Sigismondo D’India, has won the prestigious Diapason D’Or of the French review Diapason.

LA VENEXIANA’s collection, nominated Il Madrigale Italiano, included also the Settimo Libro di Madrigali by Claudio Monteverdi, the Quinto Libro di Madrigali by Luzzasco Luzzaschi, the Nono Libro di Madrigali by Luca Marenzio (PRIX CECILIA 1999, PRIX CINI 2000). With the Quarto Libro di Madrigali by Gesualdo da Venosa LA VENEXIANA received the prestigious PRIX AMADEUS 2000, GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2001, CANNES CLASSICAL AWARD 2002.
Other madrigals recordings are the Primo Libro di Madrigali by Sigismondo D’India and Sesto Libro di Madrigali by Luca Marenzio, Monteverdi’ Third Book (GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE 2003) and Wert’s Gerusalemme Liberata (Editor Choice of Diapason, Repertoire and Le Monde de la Musique).

For their interpretation of Sigismondo’s, Luzzaschi’s, Marenzio’s and Gesualdo’s madrigals LA VENEXIANA becamed famous in all the word and recents prestigious international rewiews’s recognitions, as the Diapason d'Or of September 1999, November 1999 and October 2001 , Editor Choice of Répertoire of Dicember 1999, Cd of the Month of Luister (Holland) and Goldberg (Spain), CD OF THE YEAR 2001 OF AMADEUS, PRIX FONDAZIONE CINI VENICE 1999, PRIX CECILIA 1999, GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2001, GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE ACADEMIE CHARLES CROSS 2003,
DEUTSCHSCHALLPLATTENKRITIK 2005 and 2006 (Gesualdo and Monteverdi) and CHOC of YEAR 2006 with the Sesto Libro di Madrigali by Monteverdi: all these proclaimed LA VENEXIANA as the “New Orpheus of the Italian madrigal repertoire”.

New ambitious project is the Monteverdi Edition, available on 2006.

Two big concerts projects in 2007: Monteverdi's Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis (1610) and ORFEO b Monteverdi (1607).

LA VENEXIANA has established a new style in Italian early music performance: a warm, truly Mediterranean blend of textual declamation, rethorical colour and harmonic refinement.

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