La Venexiana

Gabriele Palomba | artistic director

La Venexiana relishes the sound of the Renaissance and Baroque with passion and an irrepressible joy in music making. The freedom of this music is animated by the smallest details with finesse, style, perfect intonation, homogeneity and beautiful tone.

La Venexiana, founded by Claudio Cavina and now lead by Gabriele Palomba, earned its reputation as leading Italian ensemble in the field of Early Music also due to the prizes it won for its highly recommended CDs. Their recordings of madrigals by d’India, Luzzaschi, Marenzio, Gesualdo and the complete recording of the madrigal books and operas by Monteverdi on GLOSSA have won acclaim worldwide. On the occasion of Monteverdi’s 450th birthday, the ensemble gave concerts and opera performances all over Europe, including Schwetzingen, Zurich, Halle, Venice and Lisbon.

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On Tour

March 04, 2025 | Berlin

New Releases

Giovanni Battista Bononcini | La conversione di Maddalena | Oratorio | GLOSSA | listen

Watch and Listen

The second to last release A DUE ALTI as well as the complete repertoire on GLOSSA are available on YouTube | listen

Projects

Caravaggio and Monteverdi – Pur ti Miro | A collaboration between La Venexiana and Teatri 35
You can get a first impression of the Tableaux Vivants here.

Round M | Monteverdi meets Jazz – for further details please see info in the dowload section.

ROUND M | Konzertverein Bozen | June 2021

Reviews

Light and shadow in images and music
On a stage of colourful cloths, the three artists flip from one iconic visual moment to the next. Literally: because the moments of taking up position before the sudden pause in the spotlight were moments full of poetic drama – images for eternity, brought to life theatrically in the moment and in exciting choreography. La Venexiana brought out the contrasts of the madrigals with a formidable continuo group. Without what lies in the shadows, there can be nothing that shines in the light.
Steirerkrone | Styriarte Graz – Pur ti Miro | Juni 25ht, 2024

Shock-frozen Bible stories
With just a few things and an arsenal of cloths for the various garments, mainly in red, white and black, miraculous transformations took place, resulting in images that seem like shock-frozen Bible stories. This marriage of hearing and seeing had a magical, sometimes even spiritual power.
Kleine Zeitung | Styriarte Graz – Pur ti Miro | Michael Tschida | Juni 25th, 2024

…there is no sense of academic archaeology here, and very much a spirit of adventure and exploration. … This first-class album, graced by attractive notes and just as attractive an acoustic – warm but open – explores the genre imaginatively and vividly.
www.musicweb-international.com | CD A due alti | Jonathan Woolfe

Gabriele Palomba | artistic director

La Venexiana relishes the sound of the Renaissance and Baroque with passion and an irrepressible joy in music making. The freedom of this music is animated by the smallest details with finesse, style, perfect intonation, homogeneity and beautiful tone.

read more

La Venexiana, founded by Claudio Cavina and now lead by Gabriele Palomba, earned its reputation as leading Italian ensemble in the field of Early Music also due to the prizes it won for its highly recommended CDs. Their recordings of madrigals by d’India, Luzzaschi, Marenzio, Gesualdo and the complete recording of the madrigal books and operas by Monteverdi on GLOSSA have won acclaim worldwide. On the occasion of Monteverdi’s 450th birthday, the ensemble gave concerts and opera performances all over Europe, including Schwetzingen, Zurich, Halle, Venice and Lisbon.

www.lavenexiana.net