O Florens Rosa
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.IIIMIL-0195

By La Rossignol. By Anonymous, Claudio Monteverdi, Erasmus Widmann, Fabritio Caroso, Fiorentio Moschera, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Guillaume Costeley, Innocentius Dammonis, Johannes Ciconia, John Dunstable, Maurice Landgrave de Hessen, and Thomas Weelkes. Classical. CD. Naxos #IIIMIL 0195. Published by Naxos (NX.IIIMIL-0195).

The rose, as it already was during the Middle Ages, continues to be one of the symbolic images of Renaissance civility. Its different values have persisted for ages: the religious one (the rose symbolizing the Madonna/Mother Mary, image of absolute pureness), the profane one (as a personification of the beloved one) and the esoteric one (symbol of resurrection, immortality, regeneration). This release, recorded live in a fifth century church in Santa Maria in Bressanoro in Castelleone, creates particularly varied and rich atmospheres: the compositions of great authors like Dunstable, Ciconia, Frescobaldi and Monteverdi meet in an aesthetical rather than in a chronological order. They melt together with the very direct, popular versions of devotional praise-songs of Dammonis and, singing and dancing to them, they celebrate the spring awakening of all senses and of passion, as if on a happy trip toward a new sense of harmony, toward the perfection of music, in a period when music still contributes to the great evolution of thought.