Cantica Symphonia - Vocal Music - Past and Present Reflections of the Marian Inspiration (2008)

After completing their original trilogy devoted to Guillaume Dufay (two volumes of motets and one of chansons) and before setting out on their next large-scale project, Giuseppe Maletto and Cantica Symphonia reduced their ensemble to its vocal core and arranged themselves in front of the microphones - in order to make what quite possibly will be the most personal disc of their careers. The result was a series of intimate sessions made across 2007 and 2008, all of them in that acoustic in which they have been rehearsing, performing and recording for many years (the Piedmontese church of the "Colletto" - the scene of plenty of La Venexiana's recordings too, and whose quincentenary is currently being commemorated), with Maletto and his singers delivering for us an anthology of motets and laude inspired by the Virgin Mary, many of them hitherto little-known. To the Renaissance compositional voices of Mouton, Isaac, Willaert and Peñalosa are joined for this occasion two living composers, Carlo Galante and Yakov Gubanov, with works written especially for Cantica Symphonia. An excellent and original a capella disc, performed by one of today’s most invigorating early music ensembles.