Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

Claudio Monteverdi Essentials

Apple Music Classical

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 center 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, Joshua Ellicott, Dunedin Consort

2:20

Dal Mio Permesso Amato

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Monica Piccinini

5:11

Zefiro torna, e di soavi accenti

Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini, Barokksolistene

6:13

Cruda Amarilli (Live)

2:54

1. Tancredi, che Clorinda un homo stima

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

3:11

Il ballo delle ingrate, SV 167

Katharina Bäuml, Capella de la Torre

5:18

Pur Ti Miro (Poppea, Nerone)

Dana Hanchard, Sylvia McNair, 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

Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

5:28

No. 7, Possente spirto, e formidabil nume

Valerio Contaldo, Leonardo García Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea

8:29

Dixit Dominus a 6

His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Nigel Robson, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Marinella Pennicchi, English Baroque Soloists, Bryn Terfel, Alastair Miles, 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-Chor, Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble, Pablo Heras-Casado

7:47

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

Anthony Rooley, Consort of Musicke

7:38

Concerto - Audi coelum

Nigel Rogers, Taverner Consort, David Thomas, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir, 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

Robert Hollingworth, I Fagiolini

3:40

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

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano

9:54

Ohime Ch'io Cado

Ensemble Concerto, Roberto Gini

3:57

Sinfonia

Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain

1:28

Deposuit potentes

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

2:27