Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

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Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

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

Monica Piccinini, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

5:11

Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti

I Fagiolini, Barokksolistene, Robert Hollingworth

6:13

Cruda Amarilli (Live)

2:54

1. Tancredi, che Clorinda un homo stima

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

3:11

Il ballo delle ingrate, SV 167

Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml

5:18

Pur Ti Miro (Poppea, Nerone)

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

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

Valerio Contaldo, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón

8:29

Dixit Dominus a 6

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

7:12

Lamento d'Arianna

Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras

11:34

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

Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew

2:18

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

Andrea Marcon, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, Magdalena Kožená

4:24

Sonata sopra Sancta Maria a 1

Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh

6:39

Dixit Dominus secondo, SV 264

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

7:47

Con che soavità, SV 139

Núria Rial, L'Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar

3:57

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"

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

9:54

Ohime Ch'io Cado

Ensemble Concerto, Roberto Gini

3:57

Sinfonia

Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris

1:28

Deposuit potentes

Harry Christophers, The Sixteen

2:27