New release: Schütz, Italian Madrigals

<p>The recording of Heinrich Schütz's Italian madrigals has just been released by harmonia mundi, in the "Les Arts Florissants" collection. A perfect opportunity to rediscover this repertoire, interpreted by Paul Agnew and his singers well-versed in the art of the madrigal!</p>

1611. After two years of study with Gabrieli in Venice, Heinrich Schütz tried his hand at composing madrigals on Italian poems. This mere ‘graduation exercise’ turned out to be a masterpiece: the young German composer demonstrated his ability to identify each nuance of the text with a different musical emotion, a refinement heightened here by the interpretation of Les Arts Florissants.

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