Vical ensemble The Fieri Consort are releasing their new album of music from the late Renaissance Italian composer Luca Marenzio in November, and for one of many tracks (‘O Mirtillo, Mirtillo, anima mia’) they’ve collaborated with artist Eleanor Meredith. The latter has produced an an authentic animated movie that enhances the serene music fantastically.
The Fieri Consort’s album, The Destined Knot, options renditions from Marenzio’s seventh e book of madrigals, revealed in 1595. Marenzio was one in all Italy’s many nice Renaissance composers, alongside the likes of Monteverdi and Gesualdo, each of whom characteristic in our listing of finest Italian composers. This explicit tune assortment follows the narrative of Il Pastor Fido (‘The Trustworthy Shepherd’), a tragicomedy by playwright Giovanni Battista Guarini.
Over their ten years of performing up to now, The Fieri Consort have explored music from completely different corners of the European Renaissance. ‘The pioneering strategy to concord, word-painting and texture taken by these sixteenth-century composers has proved an inspiration for our tasks which combine the previous with the current,’ the Consort inform us. ‘Our purpose is to convey to the viewers the eagerness these composers had for the texts that impressed them, and thru this recording and accompanying movie, audiences can expertise this music in a brand new and modern method.’
Fieri Consort pic: Matt Martin
