034571280196

Monteverdi: Madrigals Of Love And Loss

Jonathan Cohen: Arcangelo

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA68019

Release Date:  01 February 2014

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571280196

Genres:  Classical  Baroque  

  • Description

    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.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. <b>Volgendo il ciel Movete al mio bel suon</b> SV154 | Introduzione al ballo <i>V
      • 2. <b>Volgendo il ciel Movete al mio bel suon</b> SV154 | Ballo a 5 con doi violini <i&
      • 3. <b>Ciaccona</b> TARQUINIO MERULA [3'04]
      • 4. <b>Ballo a 5, seconda parte,</b> <i>Ei larmi cinse, e su destrier alato</i>
      • 5. <b>Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda</b> SV153 [20'03] - James Gilchrist/Arcangelo
      • 6. <b>Or che l ciel e la terra e l vento tace</b> SV147 [8'13]
      • 7. <b>Ohimè, dovè il mio ben, dovè il mio core? </b> SV140 [5'14] - Various Performers
      • 8. <b>Zefiro torna e l bel tempo rimena</b> SV108 [3'46]
      • 9. <b>Ohimè il bel viso, ohimè il soave sguardo</b> SV112 [4'22]
      • 10. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | Incenerite spoglie, avara t
      • 11. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | Ditelo, o fiumi, e voi chud
      • 12. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | Darà la notte il sol lume
      • 13. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | Ma te raccoglie, o ninfa, i
      • 14. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | O chiome dor, neve gentil d
      • 15. <b>Sestina</b> Lagrime damante al sepolcro dellamata SV111 | Dunque, amate reliquie, un