Dorothee Oberlinger & Dmitry Sinkovsky - Discovery of Passion (2020) [Hi-Res]

The new recording by recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger with violinist and countertenor Dmitry Sinkovsky shows the musical turn of time from the Renaissance to the Baroque in a kaleidoscope of newly conceived, experimental declamatory music by Italian masters, who for the first time expressed passions such as love and hate, grief and joy, astonishment and longing in music to the fullest.

"Discovery of Passion" presents interesting works by the most important composers of this musical avant-garde in Italy such as Claudio Monteverdi, Tarquinio Merula, Salamone Rossi, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Michelangelo Rossi, Giovanni Bassano, Giovanni Battista Vitali and many others. In his "Sinfonia a tre in Eco", for example, Salamone Rossi, perhaps Monteverdi's most important colleague among the court musicians, translates the natural phenomenon of the echo programmatically into the imitative diminutive phrases of music. A particularly cheerful ostinato piece of music from Venice is the "Ciaccona" by Tarquinio Merula. Monteverdi's solo madrigal "Sì dolce è'l tormento" is significant as one of the first examples of Monteverdi's "recitar cantando" (the "singing speech"). Marco Uccellini's "Bergamasca", a folkloristic dance style from Bergamo, is an excellent way to end intense and passionate music-making in a joyful way. This album also creates a varied listening experience through the accompaniment of instrumentalists (lute, harpsichord, cello) from Dorothee Oberlinger's Ensemble 1700.