Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

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This Italian composer bridged the 16th and 17th centuries—the eras of madrigal songs and opera arias. He wrote nine books of the former, leaving his mark with harmonic ingenuity, and more than a dozen operas, only three of which survive. The horns that introduce 1607's L'Orfeo reveal the form's original purpose: pomp in celebration of the Gonzaga court. By 1642, opera was a popular medium, with sensuality taking centre stage, as Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea demonstrates. (Courtly types also started to come in for some mockery.) Listen and discover the roots of classical song.

I. Deus in adiutorium

John Butt, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Dunedin Consort, Joshua Ellicott

2:20

Dal Mio Permesso Amato

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Monica Piccinini

5:11

Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti

Robert Hollingworth, Barokksolistene, I Fagiolini

6:13

Cruda Amarilli (Live)

2:54

1. Tancredi, che Clorinda un homo stima

Andrew King, Philip Pickett, Catherine Bott, New London Consort, John Mark Ainsley

3:11

Il ballo delle ingrate, SV 167

Katharina Bäuml, Capella de la Torre

5:18

Pur Ti Miro (Poppea, Nerone)

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard

4:11

Beatus vir primo, SV 268

Krijn Koetsveld, Le Nuove Musiche

7:10

Hor che’l ciel e la terra e’l vento tace

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

5:28

No. 7, Possente spirto, e formidabil nume

Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea, Valerio Contaldo

8:29

Dixit Dominus a 6

Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Alastair Miles, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Bryn Terfel, John Eliot Gardiner, Marinella Pennicchi, Mark Tucker, Ann Monoyios

7:12

Lamento d'Arianna

11:34

V. O chiome d'or, neve gentil del seno

Paul Agnew, Les Arts Florissants

2:18

Addio, Roma! Addio, patria! Amici, addio!

Magdalena Kožená, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, Andrea Marcon

4:24

Sonata sopra Sancta Maria a 1

Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players

6:39

Dixit Dominus secondo, SV 264

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

7:47

'Io che nell'otio naqui e d'otio vissi'

Anthony Rooley, Consort of Musicke

7:38

Con che soavità, SV 139

Núria Rial, L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

3:57

Concerto - Audi coelum

David Thomas, Nigel Rogers, Taverner Choir, Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott, Dame Emma Kirkby, Rogers Covey-Crump

7:32

Lætaniæ della Beata Vergine a sei voci, SV 204

Paolo Da Col, Odhecaton

11:10

Sí ch'io vorrei morire, SV 89

I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth

3:40

No. 1, Sonnet by an Anonymous "Altri canti d'Amor, tenero arciero"

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

9:54

Ohime Ch'io Cado

Roberto Gini, Ensemble Concerto

3:57

Sinfonia

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain

1:28

Deposuit potentes

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:27