La Venexiana

This marvelous Italian vocal ensemble is focused on the performance of early music, mostly from the Renaissance era. Founded from a cooperation between soprano Rossana Bertini as well as the group’s musical movie director, countertenor Claudio Cavina, the group followed its name in the anonymous Renaissance humor La Venexiana, a function of particular importance in Italian movie theater because of its commentary on all degrees of culture, which is portrayed in combos of high Italian and different dialects. Within this same way, the warm, Mediterranean-spirited La Venexiana ensemble maintains a wide-ranging spectral range of vocabulary subtleties in its musical interpretations and mixes and contrasts areas of so-called enhanced and popular styles. The group’s award-winning documented repertoire ranges in the beautiful and harmonically astonishing shifts from the Quarto libro di Madrigali (4th Reserve of Madrigals) with the generally questionable Carlo Gesualdo; madrigals by Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Luca Marenzio, Claudio Monteverdi, and 17th-century girl composer Barbara Strozzi, to music by Handel and Vivaldi. The ensemble’s latest tours took it throughout Italy, Germany, and Slovakia to take part in important celebrations of early music. Afterwards recordings consist of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (2007) and Marenzio’s Sesto Libro de Madrigali (2011).