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Lasso; Vicentino; Rore; Lusitano; Marenzio; Luzzaschi: Chromatic Renaissance

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble; James Weeks

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Format: CD

Cat No: 910293-2

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Release Date:  01 August 2025

Label:  Winter & Winter - Cd / Winter & Winter

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  025091029327

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

Composer/Series:  Lasso; Vicentino; Rore; Lusitano; Marenzio; Luzzaschi

  • Description

    Chromatics is a word derived from the Greek noun \u03C7\u03C1\u1FF6u\u03B1 (khroma), meaning color, and the Greek adjective \u03C7\u03C1\u03C9u\u03B1\u03C4\u03B9\u03BA\u03CC\u03C2 (khromatikos; colored). During the Renaissance, new music was composed in the Western world, opening up a palette of (timbral) colors for the first time. Before the Renaissance, music (in Gregorian chant) existed only to convey the word, not to make an appearance itself; this changed completely after the 15th century. Music, like painting, exploded into new forms and colors, and the era of the modern age was ushered in. Strange harmonies, mysterious voices - tones of passion and desire, of terror and fear, of the confusion of the sublime or of divine apparition... This is the world of musical colors that opened up in the age of the Chromatic Renaissance, giving rise to a music that is daring, adventurous and timelessly modern.