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Download Size: 62 Mb
Running Time: 01:11:23
Release Date: May 2003
Originally recorded in 2003
Tylman Susato
Anon
Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense
Convivium Musicum Gothenburgense
John Dowland
Rose Consort of Viols
Rose Consort of Viols
Alonso Lobo
Oxford Camerata
Jeremy Summerly
Oxford Camerata
Claudio Monteverdi
San Petronio Cappella Musicale Chorus
Sergio Vartolo
San Petronio Cappella Musicale
Heinrich Schütz
John Bull
Joseph Payne
Orlando Gibbons
Timothy Roberts
William Lawes
San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
San Petronio Cappella Musicale Soloists
Classical
Chamber
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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.