Monteverdi - Love and Loss
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA68019
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 3rd February 2014
Contents
Works
CiacconaIl combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV153
Madrigals, Book 6: SV107-116
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Arcangelo
Conductor
Jonathan CohenWorks
CiacconaIl combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, SV153
Madrigals, Book 6: SV107-116
Artists
James Gilchrist (tenor)Arcangelo
Conductor
Jonathan CohenAbout
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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