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La Venexiana (founded 1995) is an Italian early music ensemble founded and led by Claudio Cavina , an Italian
countertenor and conductor.
Cavina studied in Bologna with the American singer and musicologist
Candace Smith , and then with the Swiss baritone
Kurt Widmer and Belgian countertenor and conductor
René Jacobs at the
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ,
[1] then appeared regularly as a countertenor soloist and in choral works. La Venexiana, taking its name from an anonymous comedy
La Venexiana ("The Venetian Girl", c.1537), was created to focus on the core four- and five-voice
madrigal repertory of
Sigismondo d'India ,
Luzzasco Luzzaschi ,
Luca Marenzio ,
Barbara Strozzi ,
Gesualdo da Venosa , and
Claudio Monteverdi . The ensemble has later broadened to be the base of Cavina's productions and recordings of operas by Monteverdi and
Francesco Cavalli .
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With Cavina's increasing focus on opera, members of the ensemble have concurrently formed
La Compagnia del Madrigale which has continued the Gesualdo series on the
Glossa label.
Discography
1992 – Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Concerto delle Dame
1996 – Marcello: Arias and Duets
1997 – Barbara Strozzi: Primo Libra de' Madrigali (1644)
1998 – Amori e Ombre: Duets and Catatas
1999 – Handel: The 10 Italian Duets
1999 – Claudio Monteverdi, Luca Morenzio, Sigismondo D'India, Luzzasco Luzzaschi: Madrigali
1999 – Monteverdi: Settimo Libro di Madrigali
1999 – Luzzaschi: Quinto Libro de' Madrigali
1999 – Marenzio: Ninth Book of Madrigals
1999 – Sigismondo d'India: Terzo Libro de Madrigali
2001 – Sigismondo d'India: Primo Libro de Madrigali
2001 – Marenzio: Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali
2002 – Monteverdi: Terzo Libro
2003 – Giaches de Wert: La Gerusalemme Liberata
2003 – La Venexiana Live! Madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi
2004 – Monteverdi: Quarto Libro dei Madrigali
2004 – Monteverdi: Secondo Libro dei Madrigali (1590)
2005 – Gesualdo: Quinto Libro di Madrigali (1611)
2005 – Monteverdi: Sesto Libro dei Madrigali (1614)
2005 – Monteverdi: Ottavo Libra dei Madrigali: Madrigali Geurrieri et Amorosi
2006 – Gesualdo: Quarto libro de Madrigali
2007 – Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
2007 – Monteverdi: Quinto Libro dei Madrigali
2008 – Monteverdi: Libri dei Madrigali, Books 1 and 9
2008 – Monteverdi: Terzo Libro dei Madrigali
2008 – Monteverdi:
Selva morale e spirituale
2009 – Monteverdi: Scherzi Musicali
2010 – Monteverdi: Il Nerone, ossia
L'incoronazione di Poppea
2011 – 'Round M: Monteverdi Meets Jazz
2011 – Cavalli: Artemisia
2011 – Luzzaschi – Concerto della Dame
2012 – Monteverdi:
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
References
International National Academics Artists Other