Monteverdi: Madrigals Of Love And Loss

Arcangelo,Jonathan Cohen

Monteverdi: Madrigals Of Love And Loss
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Published
11 February 2014
ISBN
0034571280196

Monteverdi: Madrigals Of Love And Loss

Arcangelo,Jonathan Cohen

Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo (in their first recording as a vocal and instrumental group) presents a selection from Monteverdi’s last three books of madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdi’s great operas, and among his most celebrated music.

Most of the madrigals of Book 6 (1614) are songs of parting and loss. Book 7 (1619) is entitled Concerto, meaning that all the works it contains require instrumental accompaniment. And Book 8 (1638) introduces the genere concitato-the ‘agitated’ manner that Monteverdi devised to convey the emotions of war, whether physical or psychological. Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda sets an extended passage from Tasso’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata. Tasso’s text, set in the time of the first crusade, tells of the combat between the Christian knight Tancredi and the Saracen maiden Clorinda. Most of the action of the Combattimento is conveyed by a narrator (Testo-the text), sung here by celebrated tenor James Gilchrist.

Track listing:

Merula:

Ciaccona

Monteverdi:

Volgendo il ciel (Ballo ‘Movete’)

Thomas Walker (tenor)

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

James Gilchrist (tenor)

Or che'l ciel e la terra

Ohimè, dov'è il mio ben (Book 7)

Katherine Watson (soprano) & Anna Dennis (soprano)

Zefiro torna

Ohimè il bel viso (Book 6)

Sestina - Lagrimae d'Amante al sepolero dell'amata

 

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