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La Venexiana
La Venexiana 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, then appeared regularly as a countertenor soloist and in choral works. La Venexiana, taking its name from an anonymous comedy La Venexiana, 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. 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. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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Madrigali á 5 voci, Libro 9 (Excerpts): No. 12, Solo e pensoso
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Madrigals, Book 2 (Il secondo libro de madrigali): Ecco mormorar l'onde
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Io mi son giovinetta (Live)
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Madrigali á 5 voci, Libro 9 (Excerpts): No. 20, Crudele, acerba
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Si ch'io vorrei morire

Albums

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Monteverdi: Madrigals (Live)

2020
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Book 8 (La Venexiana)

2005
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Handel: 10 duetti italiani

1998
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Books 1 and 9 (La Venexiana)

2008
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Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 4 (La Venexiana)

2004
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Luzzaschi: Quinto libro de madrigali

2020
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Book 5 (Il Quinto Libro De' Madrigali, 1605) (La Venexiana)

2007
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Book 7 (La Venexiana)

2004
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Book 6 (La Venexiana)

2005
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Monteverdi, C.: Madrigals, Book 2 (Il Secondo Libro De' Madrigali, 1590) (La Venexiana)

2004

Videos

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Luca Marenzio - Solo e pensoso i piú deserti campi

SheetMusicVideo391K views
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Marenzio: S'io parto i' moro - La Venexiana

pannonia772.4K views
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Marenzio: Così nel mio parlar voglio esser aspro - La Venexiana

pannonia775.2K views
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Monteverdi | Io mi son giovinetta [á 5; La Venexiana]

Andrea Scalia - Early Music27K views
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Gesualdo: O dolorosa gioia - La Venexiana

pannonia774.3K views
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Marenzio: Ah dolente partita - La Venexiana

pannonia772.7K views
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Monteverdi | Sfogava con le stelle [á 5; La Venexiana]

Andrea Scalia - Early Music107K views
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Marenzio: Cantiam la bella Clori - La Venexiana

pannonia774.2K views
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Luca Marenzio - Crudele acerba inexorabil Morte 'Sheet Music Video'

SheetMusicVideo19K views
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Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento della Ninfa

Antonio Uras13K views