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Monteverdi - Love and Loss | Hyperion CDA68019

Monteverdi - Love and Loss

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA68019

Barcode: 0034571280196

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 3rd February 2014

Contents

Works

Merula, Tarquinio

Ciaccona

Monteverdi, Claudio

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV153
Madrigals, Book 6: SV107-116
» Ohime il bel viso, ohime il soave sguardo, SV112
» Sestina 'Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata', SV111
» Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena, SV108
Madrigals, Book 7: SV117-145
» Ohime dove il mio ben, SV140
Madrigals, Book 8: SV146-167 'Madrigals of Love and War'
» Or che 'l ciel e la terra e 'l vento tace, SV147
Volgendo il ciel: Movete al mio bel suon, SV154

Artists

James Gilchrist (tenor)
Arcangelo

Conductor

Jonathan Cohen

Works

Merula, Tarquinio

Ciaccona

Monteverdi, Claudio

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV153
Madrigals, Book 6: SV107-116
» Ohime il bel viso, ohime il soave sguardo, SV112
» Sestina 'Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata', SV111
» Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena, SV108
Madrigals, Book 7: SV117-145
» Ohime dove il mio ben, SV140
Madrigals, Book 8: SV146-167 'Madrigals of Love and War'
» Or che 'l ciel e la terra e 'l vento tace, SV147
Volgendo il ciel: Movete al mio bel suon, SV154

Artists

James Gilchrist (tenor)
Arcangelo

Conductor

Jonathan Cohen

About

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.

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