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This second volume allows the listener to trace Monteverdi’s evolution from the early Mantuan a cappella madrigals that made his reputation to the late concerted madrigals of the 1630s written for the Viennese court.
These styles seem worlds apart, yet both are forged by the same desire, to confront and master the tension between mere art and real life.
Claudio Monteverdi: Ballo delle ingrate (excerpts)
Ballo delle ingrate: Sinfonia
Claudio Monteverdi: Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo, ardo: accorrete
Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo, ardo
Claudio Monteverdi: Rimanti in pace a la dolente e bella
Rimanti in pace a la dolente e bella
Claudio Monteverdi: Ogni amante e guerrier: nel suo gran regno
1a parte - Ogni amante e guerrier: nel suo gran regno
2a parte - Io che nell'otio nacqui e d'otio vissi
3a parte - Ma per qual ampio Egeo spieghi le vele
4a parte - Riedi, ch'al nostro ardor, ch'al nostro canto
Claudio Monteverdi: Si ch'io vorrei morire
Si, ch'io vorrei morire
Claudio Monteverdi: Che dar piu vi poss'io?
Che dar piu vi poss'io? (What more can I give you?)
Claudio Monteverdi: E cosi a poco a poco
E cosi a poco a poco
Claudio Monteverdi: Vorrei baciarti, o Filli
Vorrei baciarti, o Filli
Claudio Monteverdi: Chiome d'oro
Chiome d'oro
Claudio Monteverdi: Batto, qui pianse Ergasto
Batto, qui pianse Ergasto (Defeated, here wept Ergastus)
Ballo delle ingrate (excerpts)
Ballo delle ingrate: Entrata
Claudio Monteverdi: Lagrime d'amante al sepolcro dell'amata (A Lover's Tears at the Tomb of His Beloved)
1a parte - Incenerite spoglie (Remains turned to ashes)
2a parte - Ditelo, o fiumi (Say it, o rivers)
3a parte - Dara la notte (By night)
4a parte - Ma te raccoglie, o ninfa (Yet heaven gathers you, o Nymph)
5a parte - O chiome d'or (O golden tresses)
6a parte - Dunque, amate reliquie (Therefore, beloved remains)
Claudio Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori
Tirsi: Per monti e per valli
Il ballo: Balliamo, che il gregge
April 2008
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“…I Fagiolini are at their best in the quietly pastoral pieces. 'Rimanti in pace' is an early masterpiece from Book 3, sung with the tenderest of touches at the melting harmonies, and 'Lagrime d'amante'… is given the most persuasive performance I have heard...”
May 2008
“Under Robert Hollingworth's inspired direction, the five singers squeeze all the emotion possible out of the suspensions, both diatonic and chromatic.”
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Ballo delle ingrate: Sinfonia
